Reply To: problems installing Rosetta on CentOS (fixed)

[Anonymous]

You need to install the developer’s version (code version, not runtime version) of zlib as well. In the ubuntu package manager, it’s called zlib1g-dev. In the error “/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz”, the first part means it’s a linker error (ld is the linker), -l means which library is missing, and z identifies the library as zlib.

This is the code called by Rosetta to allow it to support gzipped input/output.