From: knittl Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:26:39 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM, wrote: > [...] > > ./configure > make > make install > > Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows: why not simply install the version of git that comes with ubuntu? `sudo apt-get install git` should do the trick ... > cannot find zlib.h there's the problem. the zlib compression libraries are missing on your system. you'd have to install them first: `sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev`, but you are probably missing some more libraries necessary to compile git hope that helps, daniel -- typed with http://neo-layout.org myFtPhp -- visit http://myftphp.sf.net -- v. 0.4.7 released!