This sounds just like a similar question someone posted a few days ago. Normally you shouldn't install distutils - it comes with python. But apparently SuSe Linux improperly removed disutils out of the python standard library and put it in a separate package (called python-devel ?). Search this mailing list archive for SuSE and you'll find the details. On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, damon fasching wrote:
Hi,
I've just attempted to install Distutils-1.0.2 with
python setup.py install
and got the following error.
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 30, in ? packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'], File "/home/damon/download/software/python/distutils/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line 101, in setup _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs) File "/home/damon/download/software/python/distutils/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__'
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I'm running Python 2.3.4 on a Linux 2.4 x86 box, if that matters.
Any ideas on how I can get distutils to install?
Thanks, Damon
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