On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Jesramz <jesus.ramirez.ute...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I installed it from here: http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.5.6/ > > What do you think a solution might be? >
There is no binary installer on that page. That means you downloaded the source code and compiled it yourself. Yes, you didn't patch it. But it's still a self-compiled version of Python. In order to get zlib in a self-compiled version of Python, you need to install the appropriate -dev package. From a quick look at the repository, I think it's zlib1g-dev but I'm not sure. On Ubuntu, the development headers are in a different package than the libraries themselves. The development headers aren't needed when you're installing a binary that someone else compiled (for instance, anything you get from the package manager) but are needed if you're trying to build anything that uses the library. Since a good chunk of the Python stdlib isn't actually necessary to run Python, you can successfully build Python without getting a good chunk of the modules. ./configure will give you a list of the modules that won't get built at the end of its output. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
