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Workaround for zlib problem when building Plone 4.0.5 on Ubuntu Desktop 11.05

by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 24, 2011 09:16 PM

If you get this error using the Plone 4.0.5 unified installer:

Compiling and installing jpeg local libraries ...
Skipping zlib build
Compiling and installing readline local libraries ...
Installing Python 2.6.6. This takes a while...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding: zip
Python zlib support is missing; something went wrong in the zlib or python build.

Installation has failed.

You should use the patch workaround found at the bottom this page:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6030876/plone-4-0-5-unified-installer-failing-on-ubuntu-11-04-natty-with-zip-zlib-error

Specifically, the patch at

http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-rev/7582a78f573b

changes the setup.py included in the Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2 

To apply the patch, you 

tar xfj Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2
wget http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-rev/7582a78f573b
cd Python-2.6.6
patch < ../7582a78f573b
cd ..
mv Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2 Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2.orig
tar cfj Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2 Python-2.6.6

then go back up one directory and run the unified installer normally.

 

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