I have SuSE 10.0 installed on my machine, and it comes with Python 2.4.1. I've been trying to build Zope on this box, and I'm getting an error that it can't find distutils.cmd. I did some digging, and it appears this is part of distutils.core, and according to the distutils download page, distutils should be already included with Python versions above 1.6.
I checked where my system has Python installed, and it's at /usr/lib/python2.4. I did a find for that directory and all the subdirectories for anything distutils, and nothing came back.
Is it just a straightforward thing to download the distutils tar file and install it, or since it wasn't included with my Python install (and should have been), is there anything special I should check or be aware of?
Thanks, Charles Mire
At 11:11 AM 12/30/2005 -0600, cmire wrote:
I have SuSE 10.0 installed on my machine, and it comes with Python 2.4.1. I've been trying to build Zope on this box, and I'm getting an error that it can't find distutils.cmd. I did some digging, and it appears this is part of distutils.core, and according to the distutils download page, distutils should be already included with Python versions above 1.6.
I checked where my system has Python installed, and it's at /usr/lib/python2.4. I did a find for that directory and all the subdirectories for anything distutils, and nothing came back.
Is it just a straightforward thing to download the distutils tar file and install it, or since it wasn't included with my Python install (and should have been), is there anything special I should check or be aware of?
Some Linux distributions split Python into multiple system packages; the missing package is probably an RPM (or whatever SuSE uses for packaging) called "python-dev" or "python-devel". Install that and you should be good to go.
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