On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, James Matthews <nytrok...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks James, > I did try the plain old configure but I was missing compression zlib and I > wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be be running in circles having > to run ./configure a bunch of times so I decided to ask)
You might need to installed some other packages from Ubuntu/Debian eg: zlib-dev Building python requires certain "development libraries" that Ubuntu/Debian systems do not install by default (they are separate packages). cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list