[Distutils] Problem with Setuptools on Ubuntu 8.0.4

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:15 AM 5/14/2008 -0700, Andrew Francis wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I have the following problem with Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
>and  Xandros on the EEE ASUS. I am trying to install
>PyAMF-0.3.1
>
>python setup.py install
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
>     use_setuptools()
>   File
>"/home/afrancis/Public/PyAMF-0.3.1/ez_setup.py", line
>91, in use_setuptools
>     import setuptools;
>setuptools.bootstrap_install_from = egg
>zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib
>not available

Looks like you're missing python-zlib or some such Ubuntu 
package.  Dunno what it'd actually be called, that's just a guess at the name.