zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available in spark(ubuntu 16.04 LTS) [closed]

I am trying to use the countbyvalue() function and it gave me the following error:

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 109, in _get_module_details __import__(pkg_name) zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

I see solutions for this as to configure python again but while configuring it says --with-zlib-dir is an unrecognized option.

I am not sure if it would change any, on proceeding further, even it couldn't recognize the option

How can I solve it?

1 Answer

Answer to a similar question raised here suggested installing zlib1g-dev in order to solve this error:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

More info about zlib1g-dev

Note: If you have a spark cluster, you might need to install the package on every node in the cluster.