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