Pip error when trying to install zlib

Question

I'm new to Python and programming and am having trouble installing zlib through pip , I keep having the issue below:

pip install zlib
Collecting zlib
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement zlib (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for zlib

Answer 1

zlib不是 python 包，您可以尝试yum/apt-get install zlib-devel或yum/apt-get install zlib 。

Answer 2

对于 Ubuntu： sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Answer 3

On mac using homebrew:

brew install zlib