GeoLite DB installation issue on Ubuntu trusty

When I click on install GeoLite DB button, I got an error log in my nginx error.log as follow:

2015/05/07 11:55:40 [error] 28511#0: *189451 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function gzopen() in /home/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-slimstat/wp-slimstat.php on line 1201” while reading response header from upstream, client: my.wordpress.ip.address, server: https://www.mywordpress.com, request: “GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-slim-config&tab=7&action=download-maxmind HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:”, host: “www.mywordpress.com”, referrer: “https://www.mywordpress.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-slim-config&tab=7”

I followed this post: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217927 and modified wp-slimstat.php on line 1201 and fixed this.

My ubuntu is:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

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