Thanks, Philip. I installed python-devel from the SUSE installation CD and that helped. I was able to import distutils without any error from the python prompt. -----Original Message----- From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje@telecommunity.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:51 AM To: Rajeev Nair; distutils-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Distutils] DistUtils does not install At 12:59 AM 7/26/2007 +0530, Rajeev Nair wrote:

Hi Folks,

I am a complete newbie to python and its modules. I have got the following error upon installing DistUtils modules

Python setup.py install

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 30, in ? packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'], File "/usr/local/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line 101, in setup _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs) File "/usr/local/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__'

What am I missing here ? Tried Installing some python-devel modules too but they just wouldn't install complaining about the python version to be 2.4. I have installed the same version of python though.

The OS is Suse x86_64 GNU/Linux

Please help.

The distutils are included with modern Python versions; you should not attempt to install the standalone version, as it is almost certainly *way* out of date. If your operating system does not include the distutils as part of its standard Python installation, you'll need to install whatever package (usually python-devel) contains them. To check if you already have the distutils installed correctly, start your python interpreter and "import distutils". If that doesn't give you an error, they're already installed.