can't decompress data; zlib not available

[Christian Heimes]

Am 14.11.2011 20:30, schrieb Steve Edlefsen:
> Sorry about that.  Ubuntu 11.10.
> 
> I used
> 
> Plone-4.1.2-UnifiedInstaller.tar
> 
> which installed o.k.  I'm serving a webpage on my LAN.
> 
> I did a search on files named "python" on my machine.
> There are 23 not including the ones in the Plone
> buildout-cache in my account.  Seems like a lot of
> applications install their own copy of python.
> 
> There are also
> 
> ../usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so
> ../usr/lib/libz.so
> 
> which, I believe, are the zlib libraries.
> 
> I've read that you can reinstall python with configure
> using the "--with-zlib" option, but configure isn't in
> 
> /usr/local/Plone/Python-2.6/lib/python2.6/config
> 
> I think the python interpreter for the command line is
> the one in /usr/bin/python.  Would this be the one I
> reconfigure for zlib? 

You might have run into this [1] issue with Ubuntu 11.04+ and Python
before 2.7.2.

Christian

[1]
http://lipyrary.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-compile-python-on-ubuntu-1104.html