[BangPypers] python zlib problem

[steve]

Hi Amit,

Please don't top-post. I've copied your comment below ...

On 10/31/2009 12:33 PM, Amit Sethi wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
> <lawgon at thenilgiris.com>wrote:
>
>>  On Saturday 31 Oct 2009 12:24:24 pm Amit Sethi wrote:
>>  >  How do you force install a package ?? I have tries doing sudo apt-get
>>  >  --force-yes install python and it has no effects..
>>  >
>>  uninstall and install again?
> That is a very dangerous option ... tried it but uninstalls a lot of
> packages practically the whole ubuntu-desktop.
>

You could just download the binary package, extract the module and place it in 
your PYTHON_HOME. On my system that is:

/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/zlibmodule.so

I'm sorry I do not know how to do that for Ubuntu.

cheers,
- steve
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