At first, I only want to use install feedparser with python3.2, while it need Distribute. When I install Distribute with python3.2 setup.py install I got File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/zipfile.py", line 687, in __init__ "Compression requires the (missing) zlib module") RuntimeError: Compression requires the (missing) zlib module Then I downloaded zlib and installed it with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python3.2 make sudo make install After the installation, and tried to install Distribute, I got the same error. Finally, I solved it by re-install python3.2 with zlib. 1 Of course, you need to