altinstall error

Question

Hello I have just install python as highlighted below there is an error for altinstall, should I use make install?

 ./configure
 make
 sudo make altinstall

or

./configure
make
sudo make install

I was following a tutorial and this was the error.

File "/home/plutes/Downloads/Python-3.6.6rc1/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 117, in _bootstrap
    return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/home/plutes/Downloads/Python-3.6.6rc1/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 27, in _run_pip
    import pip._internal
**zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
Makefile:1113: recipe for target 'altinstall' failed
make: *** [altinstall] Error 1**

plutes@plutes-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Downloads/Python-3.6.6rc1$ cd

plutes@plutes-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ python
python             python3            python3.6m-config  python3m
python2            python3.6          python3.7          
python2.7          python3.6m         python3.7m         
plutes@plutes-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ python3.6

Python 3.6.6rc1 (default, Jun 17 2018, 21:36:49) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help()

Welcome to Python 3.6's help utility!

as you can see it works, but I am unsure about future uses. thanks for any guidance.

plutes@plutes-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ python3.6
Python 3.6.6rc1 (default, Jun 17 2018, 21:36:49) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("Hello, World!")  
Hello, World!
>>> 

Solution 1

I've just experienced the same issue with installing python3.7.3 on ubuntu18.04. Following this message and running:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 bzip2 libbz2-dev \
zlib1g-dev libssl-dev openssl libgdbm-dev libgdbm-compat-dev liblzma-dev libreadline-dev \
libncursesw5-dev libffi-dev uuid-dev

Allowed me to successfully run sudo make altinstall.

Solution 2

I had the same issue using Ubuntu and the two top answers did not work. I used the answer I got from https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/common-build-problems and tried again and it worked. basically I did:

sudo apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev \
libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev \
xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev python-openssl git

and then:

sudo make altinstall

Comments

[Manikandan Ram]

Worked perfectly