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I'm trying to install pcre-8.35 on Ubuntu. My issue is similar to this guy's. I'm following the same tutorial, but my problem stems from a command up from his.When I try to install, I receive this error message: ** Cannot --enable-pcregrep-libz because zlib.h was not found I did some research and ran this command: sudo apt-get install --reinstall zlib1g But, I still have the same problem. Help is appreciated!

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  • What does say `dpkg -S zlib.h` ? – Zulu Sep 21 '14 at 14:30
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    This is an off-topic question here, but `zlib1g-dev` is the package you want. Library packages typically just come with the libraries, you need the development packages if you want the headers and such as well. – Crowman Sep 21 '14 at 14:38
  • Thank you Paul, and I won't post a Linux related question again. Can you help me with another problem that arose? I'm following the instructions for the problem that the other guy had and when I run the yum whatprovides command, no matches return. Does this mean the file I'm looking for isn't on my machine. How do I fix that? What yum repositories do I need to enable? Sorry for all the questions. I'm just beginning to learn Linux. – Mike Roslansky Sep 22 '14 at 23:28

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In my case, I was able to solve this issue Cannot --enable-pcregrep-libz because zlib.h was not found with just this command:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

It's like the tip given by Paul Griffiths

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