[Distutils] problem with setuptool install

[Tania Fahima Parvez]

Hi,

I downloaded the setuptools-0.6c7 version of setupttols.  I run "python ez_setup.py" and it comes back with the following message back: "Setuptools version 0.6c7 or greater has been installed."  I have downloade the setupttols egg ( setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg ) in this directory also.  When I try to run the "python easy_install.py setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg" command , I get the following error in the last lines:
 File "/downloads/www.python.org/setuptools-0.6c7/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 154, in unpack_zipfile
    data = z.read(info.filename)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py", line 353, in read
    raise RuntimeError, \
RuntimeError: De-compression requires the (missing) zlib module

I have all the zlib libraries installed an in the path.  

Please help!

Thanks.

Tania