Hello - I am a microbiologist and I am attempting to set up a a local instance of Galaxy. I'm very green with the Linux environment! So you will have to pardon a very naive question from a biologist... I have installed VirtualBox on my PC and I am currently running Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64 bit). I have downloaded the galaxy distribution from the mercurial repository and have executed the run.sh script. However, Galaxy fails to launch, and I get the following error message: zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available Fetch failed. Would anyone have a fix for this problem? I have tried installing zlibc using the following command: sudo apt-get install zlibc But this does not seem to resolve the issue... Is this something to do with Ubuntu (should I try a different Linux environment)? Any recommendations would be deeply appreciated. Joe --- Joe J. Harrison Senior Fellow Department of Microbiology University of Washington 1705 NE Pacific Street, HSB J181 Seattle WA USA (206) 543-3147