Re: libz1 package

["Seneca Cunningham" <seneca@slemish.com>]

Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm new to Debian.  Can anyone please tell me what the deal is
> with the libz1 package?  It seems to be needed by quite a few
> other packages.  Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't
> find it on my distribution CDs.  I was even more surprised when
> I couldn't find it in the packages section of the Debian web
> site.  I'm sure I'm missing something pretty basic.

I wondered about that myself, when I first started with Debian. zlibg1
provides libz1, so you need to install it.

Hope this helps,

Seneca
seneca@slemish.com