I was able to recompile zlib $./configure --shared
then recompile Python 2.5.1; I am now able to import the zlib module. cheers -sg I was able to recompile zlib $./configure --shared then recompile Python 2.5.1; I am now able to import the zlib module. cheers -sg On Jan 4, 5:17 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2:19 am, stuntgoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > import zlib works in Python 2.4 (debian etch AMD64 - default python > > version for that distro) > > > I built python 2.5 from source; zlib is not importable. > > 2.5 has been available for some time in the Debian repositories. > Installing the .deb may provide better results. Note that you might > also have to upgrade the dependencies to a newer version. apt-get > will do all of this for you - "man apt-get" for all of the > details.http://packages.debian.org/etch/python2.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list