distutils and Debian

[Sam Holden]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:36:22 -0500, Colin J. Williams <cjw at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> Colin J. Williams wrote:
>> 
>>> I have installed the Python*-dev packages, but my present problem 
>>> centres on installing distutils.
>> 
>> 
>> Why are you trying to install distutils over the one provided by 
>> python-dev? It's probably not a good idea.
> I am doing this because there is no distutils in the Debian packages for 
> Python2.3.4 or Python 2.3.4-dev.

What debian are you using?

On unstable (x86) I get:
; apt-cache search distutils | grep python2\\.3
python2.3-dev - Header files and a static library for Python (v2.3)
python2.3-scipy-core - low level utilities for scipy (for python 2.3)
; dpkg -L python2.3-dev | grep distutils/__init__
/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/__init__.py
; python2.3 -V
Python 2.3.4

On stable (x86) I get:
; apt-cache search distutils | grep python2\\.3
python2.3-dev - Header files and a static library for Python (v2.3)
; dpkg -L python2.3-dev | grep distutils/__init__
/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/__init__.py
; python2.3 -V
Python 2.3b2+

I can't see a python2.3.4 package anywhere...

I you are using stable you should be able to pull 2.3.4 from testing,
assuming it's in there of course (and if not from unstable)...

-- 
Sam Holden