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
== CPython 3.6.0 (default, Feb 16 2017, 13:20:29) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
==   Linux-4.4.0-62-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid little-endian
==   hash algorithm: siphash24 64bit
==  cwd: /home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/build/test_python_20536
==  encodings: locale=UTF-8, FS=utf-8
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1, isolated=0)
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 [1/1] test_venv
test_defaults (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_executable (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_executable_symlinks (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_isolation (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_overwrite_existing (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_prefixes (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_prompt (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_symlinking (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_unoverwritable_fails (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_upgrade (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_devnull (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_explicit_no_pip (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_no_pip_by_default (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_with_pip (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... FAIL

======================================================================
FAIL: test_with_pip (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/test/test_venv.py", line 372, in test_with_pip
    with_pip=True)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/tmp/tmp51me85og/bin/python', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/test/test_venv.py", line 378, in test_with_pip
    self.fail(msg.format(exc, details))
AssertionError: Command '['/tmp/tmp51me85og/bin/python', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

**Subprocess Output**
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    ensurepip._main()
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 189, in _main
    default_pip=args.default_pip,
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 102, in bootstrap
    _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/home/patrick/Programs/Python-3.6.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 27, in _run_pip
    import pip
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available


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Ran 14 tests in 1.278s

FAILED (failures=1)
test test_venv failed
test_venv failed

1 test failed:
    test_venv

Total duration: 1 sec
Tests result: FAILURE