[Distutils] distutils install probs on suse 9.0

[Floris van der Tak]

Distutils was indeed part of python-devel, which is on the dvd, 
but is not part of the standard installation.

Thanks for your help,   Floris



On Tue, 18 May 2004, Mats Wichmann wrote:

> At 05:43 AM 5/18/2004, David Handy wrote:
>  >On Tue, 18 May 2004, Floris van der Tak wrote:
>  >
>  >> my attempt to install the distutils on suse 9.0 (which provides python
>  >> 2.3) fails:
>  >
>  >Why are you installing distutils on a system that already has Python 2.3
>  >installed? Python 2.3 normally comes with distutils as part of the Python
>  >standard library.
>  >
>  >Did suse distribute a version of Python that had distutils removed?
> 
> It should come from python-devel
> 
>