building Python from source with zlib support

Question

When building Python 3.2.3 from source on Ubuntu 12.04, the zlib module is not available.

I downloaded the official source distribution from python.org, and attempte

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev

Even though python-dev is for python2.7 it will still bring in all the necessary dependencies.

You will then need to do:

./configure
make
sudo make install

To rebuild python3