Getting error zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

[Diez B. Roggisch]

shabda raaj schrieb:
> I have a VPS server with fedora 7.
> I wanted to install easy_install on this server, but I got an error
> saying
>  unable to open /usr/lib/ > python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or
> directory).
> So I installed the latest version of python from source.
> Now when I am trying to install libraries, I am getting an error like,
> "zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available"

You'd better install the python-devel-package of the fedora-python. Then 
the first attempt should work, and you can forget about the 
self-compiled version.


Diez