Same Issue 4 Years Ago

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I apologise for my irritance however I've been trying to figure this out for ages and I haven't. What I usually do is I wait before I'm completely out of ideas before making an account or posting. I have searched these forums and Google and UbuntuForums for this answer.
Oh, and by the way, 

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 yard@MechInteg-GS1000:~$ wget zlib.tar.gz http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
--2015-03-01 18:14:15-- http://zlib.tar.gz/
Resolving zlib.tar.gz (zlib.tar.gz)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘zlib.tar.gz’
--2015-03-01 18:14:15-- http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
Resolving zlib.net (zlib.net)... 69.73.132.10
Connecting to zlib.net (zlib.net)|69.73.132.10|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 571091 (558K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz.2’
100%[======================================>] 571,091 859KB/s in 0.6s
2015-03-01 18:14:16 (859 KB/s) - ‘zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz.2’ saved [571091/571091]
FINISHED --2015-03-01 18:14:16--
Total wall clock time: 1.0s
Downloaded: 1 files, 558K in 0.6s (859 KB/s)
ryard@MechInteg-GS1000:~$ tar -zxvf zlib.tar.gz
tar (child): zlib.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Edit
Wait I think I got it

You forgot the -1.2.8 in the tarball