how can I get package libz.so.1?

I'm trying to make a Minecraft bedrock edition server and I can't make it work cause of a library called libz.so.1. The following error pops up 'cannot open shared library libz.so.1'.

I have tried installing and updating zlib1g but it made no difference.

You need the development libraries for zlib1g, not just the runtime environment.

sudo apt install zlib1g-dev will install the underlying development libraries that your compiler is trying to find.

Solution:

Installing the lib64z1 package solved it for me: sudo apt install lib64z1.

Backstory:

While using a Raspberry Pi OS VM and trying to connect it to GitHub Actions, the library libz.so.1 was missing. This error appeared when I ran the config.sh script, more specifically when this script ran ldd ./bin/libSystem.IO.Compression.Native.so.

I updated both zlib1g and zlib1g-dev with no improvements.

I then noticed that the only libz.so.1 library installed was 32 bits by doing sudo find / -name libz.so.1*, that returned these 2 file locations:

/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (this one is a symbolic link to the one above)

and analysing this library with file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 returned:

/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11: ELF 32-bit ...

Now that I've found that I was missing the 64-bit version of this library, searching for a package with it was done on the debian packages website: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bullseye&arch=i386&mode=filename&searchon=contents&keywords=libz.so.1 which shows that lib64z1 has the library we want on the 64 bits library directory: /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.

I've also confirmed this package exists on the Ubuntu package repository: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lib64z1