Installation problem of Velvet in Ubuntu 64 and 32 bit

[shrujan]

Hi,

This is Shrujan kumar Madadha, i had a problem while installing velvet ave in my both Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 and 32 bit systems. As i typed make after downloading latest velvet from its website it gave me the following error.
I have typed as
shrujan@ubuntu:~/Programs/velvet_1.2.10$ make
it gave me the error as:
src/readSet.c:38:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/readSet.o] Enk rror 1

i couldn't understand what kind of error it is and how could i resolve so please guide me with your valuable solutions towards the issue.

Thank you and i hope a quick reply.
Shrujan kumar Madadha

[Bukowski]

Ubuntu doesn't always have what you need in terms of development libraries. You need to know how to resolve this problem:

http://kobablog.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/how-to-find-and-install-the-missing-file-in-ubuntu/

Is a good guide to working out how to fix these kinds of errors.

[JackieBadger]

Also each program documentation should list dependencies for it to install/run... in your case you do not have zlib (library) http://zlib.net