Try typing ldconfig as root and then try to install openssh again. Peter Levine wrote: >I've put Suse 8.1 on a Dell laptop at work. I'm trying to compile a recent >version of OpenSsh. When I ran "./configure --with-tcp-wrappers", I got an >error message: > >error: ***zlib missing - please install first or check config.log*** > >The config.log showed this error message: > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.2/../../../../i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: >cannot find -lz >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >Querying the packages on the system, I saw that zlib-1.1.4-41 was installed. >But I replaced it with a Suse 8.1 update from www.gzip.org/zlib and now I >have zlib-1.1.4-112. This did not help. Same error message. > >I can't find this exact error message on Google, though there are similar >messages where ld cannot find -l<something>. Interpolating from what I read >in the newsgroup threads, "cannot find -lz" means that ld is looking for >something like zlib.a or zlib.so, but these don't seem to be on the system. >Sure enough, when I run "find", it cannot find them. > >Any thoughts from anyone on how to solve this problem? > >Peter Levine > >_________________________________________________________________ >Test your ‘Travel Quotient’ and get the chance to win your dream trip! >http://travel.msn.com > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Cochise Linux Users Group Mailing List - cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >For more information: http://www.cochiselinux.org >To unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/cochiselinux > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cochise Linux Users Group Mailing List - cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx For more information: http://www.cochiselinux.org To unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/cochiselinux