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Caesar Samsi

13 Dec 2016 13 Dec '16

8:17 p.m.

Hi,

When I run configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list --with-groupname=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=list --with-mailhost=YOUR.EMAIL.DOMAIN --with-urlhost=YOUR.WEB.DOMAIN

A few lines later I get:

… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

What am I missing?

Thank you, Caesar.

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Mark Sapiro

13 Dec 13 Dec

9:15 p.m.

On 12/13/2016 08:17 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

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Hi,

When I run configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list --with-groupname=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=list --with-mailhost=YOUR.EMAIL.DOMAIN --with-urlhost=YOUR.WEB.DOMAIN

A few lines later I get:

… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

What am I missing?

sudo apt-get install python-dev

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Caesar Samsi

14 Dec 14 Dec

10:33 a.m.

Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

Thank you, Caesar.

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On Dec 13, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:

On 12/13/2016 08:17 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

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Hi,

When I run configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list --with-groupname=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=list --with-mailhost=YOUR.EMAIL.DOMAIN --with-urlhost=YOUR.WEB.DOMAIN

A few lines later I get:

… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

What am I missing?

sudo apt-get install python-dev

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Mark Sapiro

11:01 a.m.

On 12/14/2016 10:33 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

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Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

It's in the installation manual, section 15.1, as it said in the message you received.

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… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

The manual is in various formats in the doc/ subdirectory of the directory into which you unpacked and ran ./configure. I.e., doc/mailman-install/index.html, doc/mailman-install.dvi, doc/mailman-install.pdf, doc/mailman-install.ps and doc/mailman-install.txt.

It is also online. See http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node48.html for the relevant section.

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Caesar Samsi

11:58 a.m.

Indeed it is but what tripped me up was it was not python-devel it is actually python-dev

Not quite a developer so didn’t think of trying -dev … :-)

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On Dec 14, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:

On 12/14/2016 10:33 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

...
Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

It's in the installation manual, section 15.1, as it said in the message you received.

...
...
...
… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

The manual is in various formats in the doc/ subdirectory of the directory into which you unpacked and ran ./configure. I.e., doc/mailman-install/index.html, doc/mailman-install.dvi, doc/mailman-install.pdf, doc/mailman-install.ps and doc/mailman-install.txt.

It is also online. See http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node48.html for the relevant section.

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Richard Shetron

1:15 p.m.

You can always search the cache with: apt-cache search python or apt-cache search python-dev to get less noise.

On 12/14/2016 2:58 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

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Indeed it is but what tripped me up was it was not python-devel it is actually python-dev

Not quite a developer so didn’t think of trying -dev … :-)

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On Dec 14, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:

On 12/14/2016 10:33 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

...
Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

It's in the installation manual, section 15.1, as it said in the message you received.

...
...
...
… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

The manual is in various formats in the doc/ subdirectory of the directory into which you unpacked and ran ./configure. I.e., doc/mailman-install/index.html, doc/mailman-install.dvi, doc/mailman-install.pdf, doc/mailman-install.ps and doc/mailman-install.txt.

It is also online. See http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node48.html for the relevant section.

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Caesar Samsi

1:22 p.m.

In conclusion for folks searching the archives … the distutils tool is in python-dev package.

To get it do: sudo apt-get install python-dev

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On Dec 14, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Richard Shetron guest2@sgeinc.com wrote:

You can always search the cache with: apt-cache search python or apt-cache search python-dev to get less noise.

On 12/14/2016 2:58 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

...
Indeed it is but what tripped me up was it was not python-devel it is actually python-dev

Not quite a developer so didn’t think of trying -dev … :-)

...
On Dec 14, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:

On 12/14/2016 10:33 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

...
Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

It's in the installation manual, section 15.1, as it said in the message you received.

...
...
...
… checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for ***** details

The manual is in various formats in the doc/ subdirectory of the directory into which you unpacked and ran ./configure. I.e., doc/mailman-install/index.html, doc/mailman-install.dvi, doc/mailman-install.pdf, doc/mailman-install.ps and doc/mailman-install.txt.

It is also online. See http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node48.html for the relevant section.

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Mark Sapiro

1:36 p.m.

On 12/14/2016 01:22 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:

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In conclusion for folks searching the archives … the distutils tool is in python-dev package.

To get it do: sudo apt-get install python-dev

If your OS is Debian/Ubuntu.

For RHEL/Centos the package is python-devel installed via

sudo yum install python-devel

and for other OS's or Linux distros, it may be something else.

You can also install docutils with

sudo pip install docutils

if you have pip installed, but this may not install other needed python dependencies.

In short, package names and software installation methods vary widely and trying to document all the options would probably be confusing in addition to leaving some out.

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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