Install Dropbox python SDK in Ubuntu 10.04

Question

My setting: Ubuntu 10.04, Dropbox SDK 1.5.1, and python 2.7.3

I am setting up the Dropbox SDK, but encounter a problem.

My python works fine, but when I was executing

python setup.py install

to install Dropbox SDK, it shows a message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
ImportError: No module named setuptools

I googled this message and found that I don't have setuptools. So I turned to install python setuptools. However, I failed again.

I tried to execute

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

but the installation of Dropbox shows the same message.

I also went to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools downloading the file setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Then I executed

sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg

However, I got another error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

I found that probably I further need to install zlib related stuffs. Thus, I followed the advice to execute

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

but the situation seems to be the same. I always got the message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

I even used Ubuntu's Synaptic package manager, and checked and installed every package with zlib keyword. But I still have the same problem.

Could anyone give me some advice of how can I install Dropbox SDK in Ubuntu 10.04?

Answer 1

For anyone coming across this looking for an answer, the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

will properly set up setuptools, then

sudo python setup.py install

will work. Cheers

Answer 2

For 64 bit

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /lib/libz.so

For 32 bit

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib

Also install:

lib32z1 & lib32z1-dev for 32 bit packages