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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:05 PM 8/30/2006 +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>>No idea; it works fine for me.  Does "easy_install --help" work?
>
>Yes.

Well, try "easy_install -U setuptools"; it's possible your current 
installation isn't actually 0.6c1.  (If you're on Windows, use "ez_setup.py 
-U setuptools" instead).