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Reportlab install: need Pillow. Pillow install: need zlib. Zlib install: file not found

Relevant details:

  • Windows 8
  • Python 2.7 and 3.7 installed. I'm trying to migrate from 2.7 to 3.7, starting by making sure I have every package I use installed for 3.7
  • IDE is PyCharm. I tried installing packages that way, but proxy blah blah connection issues blah blah, gave up on that rabbit hole
  • I am installing from CMD, where I also have a proxy issue, so I'm downloading packages and installing from there.

  • pip version 19.0.3 

    C:\Users\me\Downloads>py -3 -m pip install zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
Processing c:\users\me\downloads\zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python37\lib\tokenize.py", line 447, in open
    buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\me\
\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-req-build-itydqf_9\\setup.py'

    Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-itydqf_9\

I have tried installing zlib1211 as well. I have tried 17 versions of Pillow. 4.0.0, 3.4.2 (succeeded but Reportlab requires 4.0 minimum), 6.1.0, and I've tried .whls and .eggs and such to no avail. I've been to dozens of pages looking to solve each issue I've come across, and I have no more things to try. zlib isn't even in pypi.

What else can I do?

Solution

  • zlib isn't a python package, you can't use pip to install it.

    you can try this or use cygwin