Oleg, After installing a fresh zlib package from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/zlib1g I was able to build and install Python-3.6.0 seems to me if the zlib module sent out with the 3.6.0 release package doesn't build (which it doesn't) then that's a bug.
thanks for your time, Patrick On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Oleg Broytman <p...@phdru.name> wrote: > Hello. > > We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on > developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); > if you're having problems learning, understanding or using Python, please > find another forum. Probably python-list/comp.lang.python mailing list/news > group is the best place; there are Python developers who participate in it; > you may get a faster, and probably more complete, answer there. See > http://www.python.org/community/ for other lists/news groups/fora. Thank > you for understanding. > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:33:19PM -0600, Patrick Wallinger < > the.hi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm brand new to python and was trying to install the newest version > > (3.6.0) on my ubuntu 16.04.1 but couldn't get it to build error free. I > > tried searching the bugs but didn't see a match for what I am seeing. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Patrick > > > > Here is the report: > > patrick@ubuntu-MacBook:~/Programs/Python-3.6.0$ ./python -m test -v > > test_venv > [skip] > > zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available > > Seems yoy don't have zlib or haven't had zlib headers when you > compiled python. Install zlib and zlib-dev packages and recompile > python. > > Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. >
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