Re: Python distutils problem

[David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>]

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 05:51, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install the Python MySQL connector on Debian testing.  If 
> I do 'python -V' I get
> 
> enterprise MySQL-python-0.9.2 # python -V
> Python 2.3.3
> 
> But when I try to run a script that relies on distutils I get this:
> 
> enterprise MySQL-python-0.9.2 #  python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 6, in ?
>      from distutils.core import setup
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> 
> According to the Python site, distutils has been part of Python since 
> version 1.6 - 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/trivial-install.html#SECTION000120000000000000000
> 
> Is this a Debian problem, or is there someone who knows Python and can 
> see I've missed something obvious?
> 

distutils is included in the python1.5-distutils and python2.*-dev
packages. You probably just need to install the appropriate python
development package.

-davidc