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

rhel python pip python3

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Solution 1

Ubuntu 16.10+ and Python 3.7 dev

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Note: I only put this here because it was the top search result for the error, but this resolved my issue.

Update: also the case for ubuntu 14.04LTS and base kernel at 4.1+

Solution 2

The solution is : # yum install zlib-devel

Solution 3

Simply copy paste this code:

CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix readline)/include -I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include -I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix readline)/lib -L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" \
PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--enable-unicode=ucs2 \
pyenv install -v 3.6.0

Solution 4

Throwing my 2cents. I've been dealing with this issue for the past 3 hours and realized that python3.6 for me was installed was in /usr/local/bin/.

I remade the configure with --prefix==/usr/bin and pip installed.

Installing collected packages: setuptools, pip Successfully installed pip-9.0.1 setuptools-28.8.0

Solution 5

you don't have decompress tool,You should install zlib .

Updated Answer

first check if its installed

yum list python-gzipstream

If not then run the below to install

yum install python-gzipstream.noarch

I have this installed on my system

 yum list python-gzipstream
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Flair

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Flair over 1 year
On RHEL 6.6, I installed Python 3.5.1 from source. I am trying to install pip3 via get-pip.py, but I get
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "get-pip.py", line 19177, in <module>
    main()
  File "get-pip.py", line 194, in main
    bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)
  File "get-pip.py", line 82, in bootstrap
    import pip
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
```
It works for the Python 2.6.6 installed. I have looked online for answers, but I cannot seem to find any that works for me.

edit: yum search zlib
```
jzlib.i686 : JZlib re-implementation of zlib in pure Java
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.i686 : Low-Level Interface to the zlib compression library
perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 : A module providing Perl interfaces to the zlib compression library
perl-IO-Zlib.i686 : Perl IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib
zlib.i686 : The zlib compression and decompression library
zlib-debuginfo.i686 : Debug information for package zlib
zlib-devel.i686 : Header files and libraries for Zlib development
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i686 : Perl interface to allow reading and writing of gzip and zip data

  Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.
```
- AReddy almost 8 years
  
  can you show the exact command.
- AReddy almost 8 years
  
  can you search for zlib package.
- Flair almost 8 years
  
  I run python3 get-pip.py to show the error message above, but it works for python get-pip.py. Yes, I can run yum search zlib.
- Edward Falk almost 8 years
  
  Based on your comments, you do have zlib installed, but perhaps there's a python-zlib wrapper you need?
- Flair almost 8 years
  
  How would I go about doing that?
- GabLeRoux over 5 years
  
  on macos, we can brew install zlib 🎉
- Ralf almost 5 years
  
  I fixed this by copying zlib.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so to /usr/local/lib/python*/lib-dynaload.
- Adan Rodriguez about 3 years
  
  In RHEL 7, sudo yum install zlib-devel.x86_64 works for me
Flair almost 8 years

I tried that. It says Setting up Install Process rhel6_latest | 1.9 kB 00:00 Package zlib-devel-1.2.3-29.el6.i686 already installed and latest version Nothing to do, but I still get the zipimport error.
Flair almost 8 years

I ran yum install zlib. I get that I already have the latest version. I still get the same error.
AReddy almost 8 years

check the updated answer
Flair almost 8 years

For yum list python-gzipstream, I get Error: No matching Packages to list , and for yum install python-gzipstream.noarch, I get No package python-gzipstream.noarch available. Error: Nothing to do
AReddy almost 8 years

can you show is us the output of yum repolist & yum search zlib.
Flair almost 8 years

For repolist, repo id repo name status rhel6_latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server - i386 - latest 11,637 repolist: 11,637
Flair almost 8 years

I put the search results in the edited question.
daonb over 5 years

Thanks! it helped me resolve the issue installing 3.7.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
jamescampbell over 4 years

This should be the current answer. Thanks
dannypaz over 3 years

Helped resolve issue for python3+ on Ubuntu 20
Kirk Broadhurst over 3 years

This doesn't seem like RHEL.
Alfishe about 3 years

It's macOS only solution (and brew also should be installed as pre-requisite). Still - good partial solution