Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

[vedaal at nym.hush.com]

On 10/12/2017 at 3:18 AM, "Werner Koch"  wrote:

-Yes, you should get 1.7.  And while you are already at it, you better
-also update to gpg 2.2.1.  There are just too many fixes and changes
we
-did since January 2016.

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OK,
did this, and downloaded all of the dependent libraries to ./configure
  gnupg-2.2.1

all went well until trying to 'make' ntbtls

Here is what happened :

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NTBTLS v0.1.2 has been configured as follows:

        Revision:  a68e81e  (42638)
        Platform:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
londo at londo-earth-trinket:~/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/londo/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/londo/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I. -I..    -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -g -O2
-fvisibility=hidden -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -Wpointer-arith -MT
visibility.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/visibility.Tpo -c -o visibility.lo
visibility.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -Wall
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wpointer-arith -MT visibility.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/visibility.Tpo -c visibility.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/visibility.o
In file included from ntbtls-int.h:251:0,
                 from visibility.h:24,
                 from visibility.c:24:
context.h:24:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:593: recipe for target 'visibility.lo' failed
make[2]: *** [visibility.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/londo/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2/src'
Makefile:456: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/londo/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2'
Makefile:387: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
londo at londo-earth-trinket:~/gnupg-2.2.1/ntbtls-0.1.2$ 

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Should I try ntbtls 0.1.1 or an even earlier version?

TIA

vedaal

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