I looked here but I am not getting a lot out of the answer:
A big reason for this is because I am a new Linux user and I haven't seen all the commands in action yet. I have the exact same problem as this guy but all the responses are too advanced for me right now to understand what exactly it is I need to do.
I am using Linux Ubuntu 14.04 and I am trying to generate a genesis block to play around with Ethereum and smart contracts. I'm following this tutorial and when I'm at the point of putting this in my console:
sudo python get-pip.py
I get this error:
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
It is my understanding that this has to do with Python not being built with zip support. This may well be the case as I had no idea what I was doing when trying to install Python. What I have done to try and resolve this is to install the latest version of zlib and try it again, but when I tried it again, I still got the same error. I re-installed Python, and I'm still getting the same error. Now, I'm just getting annoyed. What can I do to fix this issue?