Installing distribute in Python 3.3 Ubuntu

Question

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a distribution of Python 3.3.1 installed. I want to install some packages, so I first sought to install distribute-0.6.38. During the \"

Answer 1

You need to have the zlib1g-dev library installed.

Try

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

and reinstall.

If that doesn't work you may need to specify where zlib installs like so;

python setup.py install

Answer 2

It is an issue with the fact you installed Python from source.

You need to install the zlib1g-dev package to provide the headers to Python to be able to compile in zlib support:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

You may be missing other dependencies; here is a list of packages I'd install if I were to compile Python on an Ubuntu machine:

build-essential
libbz2-dev
libncursesw5-dev
libreadline5-dev
libssl-dev
libgdbm-dev
libc6-dev
libsqlite3-dev
tk-dev