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
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.hiker@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/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.