checking for zlib.h... configure: error: zlib not found. install zlib error: zlib not found.

["Chandan M. C." <chandanmc@cdac.in>]

Hai ,
  We r trying to create a openoffice deb pacakge from source tar ball .. 

We r using openoffice.org-1.1.3 
on issuing the commnad for building pkg ,we r gettig the follwoing error 
# dpkg-buildpackage  -rfakeroot -us -uc

checking which zlib to use... external
checking for zlib.h... configure: error: zlib not found. install zlib
make: *** [debian/stampdir/configure] Error 1

We tried to install zlib .. but zlib pacakge is not found in the
repository .. 

Can any one help us in this ...


Regards
Chandan