Joe Harrison wrote: > Hello - > > I am a microbiologist and I am attempting to set up a a local > instance of Galaxy. I'm very green with the Linux environment! So > you will have to pardon a very naive question from a biologist... > > I have installed VirtualBox on my PC and I am currently running > Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64 bit). I have downloaded the galaxy > distribution from the mercurial repository and have executed the > run.sh script. However, Galaxy fails to launch, and I get the > following error message: > > zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available > Fetch failed. > > Would anyone have a fix for this problem? I have tried installing > zlibc using the following command: > > sudo apt-get install zlibc > > But this does not seem to resolve the issue... Is this something to > do with Ubuntu (should I try a different Linux environment)? > > Any recommendations would be deeply appreciated.
Hi Joe, I've just tested this out with a default install of Ubuntu 11.04 desktop and can't reproduce the problem. I assume you are not using a version of Python compiled from source or anything like that? --nate > > Joe > > --- > Joe J. Harrison > Senior Fellow > Department of Microbiology > University of Washington > 1705 NE Pacific Street, HSB J181 > Seattle WA USA > (206) 543-3147 > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
