[Distutils] Spurious "required version not available" error for setuptools?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:01 PM 8/30/2006 +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote:
>I have version 0.6c1 of setuptools installed, but when I try to
>easy_install Kid from subversion:
>
>     easy_install svn://kid-templating.org/trunk
>
>I get this error message:
>
>     The required version of setuptools (>=0.6a11) is not available
>
>Any pointers to why?

No idea; it works fine for me.  Does "easy_install --help" work?