[haskell-platform] #179: Cannot install platform on Ubuntu 10.04 - missing zlib C library

[haskell-platform]

#179: Cannot install platform on Ubuntu 10.04 - missing zlib C library
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 Reporter:  georger           |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major             |   Milestone:     
Component:  (none-specified)  |    Keywords:     
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 Installed zlib and problem remains. See the log;

 george at george-laptop:~/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0/haskell-
 platform-2011.2.0.1$ !74
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/haskell-platform-2011.2 --enable-
 unsupported-ghc-version
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 *
 *     Haskell Platform Source Installer
 *
 *     For the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 and GHC 7.0.3
 *
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 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
 checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
 checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc
 checking for ghc-pkg... /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
 checking for hsc2hs... /usr/bin/hsc2hs
 checking version of ghc... 6.12.1
 checking version of ghc-pkg matches... yes
 checking ghc actually works... yes
 checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
 checking for gcc... gcc
 checking whether the C compiler works... yes
 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
 checking for suffix of executables...
 checking whether we are cross compiling... no
 checking for suffix of object files... o
 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
 checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
 checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
 checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
 checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
 checking for ANSI C header files... yes
 checking for sys/types.h... yes
 checking for sys/stat.h... yes
 checking for stdlib.h... yes
 checking for string.h... yes
 checking for memory.h... yes
 checking for strings.h... yes
 checking for inttypes.h... yes
 checking for stdint.h... yes
 checking for unistd.h... yes
 checking zlib.h usability... no
 checking zlib.h presence... no
 checking for zlib.h... no
 configure: error: The zlib C library is required
 george at george-laptop:~/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0/haskell-
 platform-2011.2.0.1$

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