Andrew Farrell afarr...@mit.edu added the comment:
In the midst of installing from
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
I get this same error on test_distutils when I run make test.
this is on debian lenny, amd64
distutils_test output
Andrew Farrell afarr...@mit.edu added the comment:
The attempt to install setuptools indicates that zlib may actually be required
it seems.
I download setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
and, as instructed at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#id4
Andrew Farrell afarr...@mit.edu added the comment:
No dice. unless I'm mistaken, this needs to be included in the distribution.
My current best solution looks like finding the source to
zlib, putting it in my path to install setuptools.
then installing zlib properly
traceback for your pleasure
Andrew Farrell afarr...@mit.edu added the comment:
Apologies. Error on my part.
For those that run into the same problem:
Though zlib is installed on an earlier version of python,
you need to have (ob debian) the package zlib1g-dev installed
when you build python
