what is libz.so?

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Thomas Knox <knoxth@cch.com>

The answer is:

It's a library that provides compression functions.

You may get it at

http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/

Feng Qiu

ORIGINAL QUESTION:

> I download gnuplot for solaris2.7 pkg and installed it. When I try to

> run it, give the following error:

>

> ld.so.1: gnuplot: fatal: libz.so: open failed: No such file or

directory

>

> Killed

>

> Where I can find libz.so, and what is it?

[2008 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-25 10:01:00]