distutils and Debian

[Robert Kern]

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.

> With >python setup.py install, I get:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 30, in ?
>     packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
>   File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line 
> 102, in setup
>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>   File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py", line 
> 130, in __init__
>     setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
> AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute 
> 'get___doc__'
> 
> I would welcome any suggestion as to how I can work around this.

I don't have a clue. It seems to be internal to the Distutils-1.0.2 
source distribution and not using the distutils from python-dev. I 
suggest asking on the distutils mailing list.

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Robert Kern
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