K Leo: thank you so much. I am on a fresh 16.04.2 with Julia 0.4.5 from "$ sudo apt-get install julia" and had exactly your error: your fix worked for me too.
On Sunday, 17 April 2016 13:15:35 UTC+1, K leo wrote: > > Run my julia code for the first time after setting julia up on Ubuntu > 16.04, I got the following errors: > > INFO: Precompiling module DataFrames... > ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: error compiling anonymous: could not load > library "libz" > libz: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > while loading /home/xxx/.julia/v0.4/GZip/src/zlib_h.jl, in expression > starting on line 8 > while loading /home/xxx/.julia/v0.4/GZip/src/GZip.jl, in expression > starting on line 75 > ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile GZip to > /home/xxx/.julia/lib/v0.4/GZip.ji > while loading /home/xxx/.julia/v0.4/DataFrames/src/DataFrames.jl, in > expression starting on line 15 > ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: Failed to precompile DataFrames to > /home/xxx/.julia/lib/v0.4/DataFrames.ji > in compilecache at ./loading.jl:400 > > > After some searching, I found that I had to install lib32z1 and > lib32z1-dev on Ubuntu. Not sure why these are missing with the new Ubuntu. >
