zlib and 1.4.3

[John B. Egger]

I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and 
./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib 
is installed properly. Although I went ahead with "make" anyway, and LyX 
1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and 
/usr/local/lib show libz files; just to be sure, I DL'd zlib from 
zlib.net and installed it.) I guess I've created kind of a mess here, 
but should I reinstall zlib in the same directory as LyX, or create a 
path to it? Or reinstall LyX to /usr/share or wherever it's supposed to 
go? [I'm using Xandros Linux (a debian-based distribution).]

--John
Registered Linux User #291592