Hi, I have been trying to compile some items against ubuntu 10.04 for some weeks now and had some initial help from Adrian (thanks!) who helped me get the other distros I was working on going. 10.04, however is causing me great pain. I looked at other projects that were/are compiling against 10.04 (and seemed to be working) and noted what I had identified as a potential problem existed amongst those projects as well, and they still completed. Thus I looked at the logs further and have identified other areas that maybe problematic... I am adding examples of both with hopes that someone would/could identify what I am messing up. preinstalling login... ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors preinstalling initramfs-tools... ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors preinstalling initscripts... ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors installing autotools-dev dpkg-deb: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing .init_b_cache/autotools-dev.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: .init_b_cache/autotools-dev.deb exit ... [ 19.242305] System halted. Thanks in advance, Nasa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org