[Distutils] problem with setuptool install
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Nov 16 17:36:51 CET 2007
At 11:01 AM 11/16/2007 -0500, Tania Fahima Parvez wrote:
>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.
Is there perhaps a "python-zlib" package provided by your OS? That
sounds like what's missing.
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