I've just downloaded and configured the Distribute buildbot and it appears that a dependency is missing somewhere. I get this (just the errors excerpted). Just wanted to capture this before I figure out what needs to be done... test_make_tarball (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'requires zlib' test_make_zipfile (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib' test_tarfile_root_owner (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib' test_tarfile_vs_tar (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib' ====================================================================== ERROR: test_make_archive_owner_group (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/ Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py", line 224, in test_make_archive_owner_group group=group) File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/ Lib/distutils/archive_util.py", line 236, in make_archive filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs) File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/ Lib/distutils/archive_util.py", line 163, in make_zipfile compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/ Lib/zipfile.py", line 675, in __init__ "Compression requires the (missing) zlib module" RuntimeError: Compression requires the (missing) zlib module ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 158 tests in 1.242s FAILED (errors=1, skipped=11) test test_distutils crashed -- <type 'exceptions.OSError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 767, in runtest_inner File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 723, in __exit__ File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 686, in get_cwd OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory 1 test failed: test_distutils