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

[Hamish Lawson]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Well, try "easy_install -U setuptools"; it's possible your current
> installation isn't actually 0.6c1.

Output:

"""
Searching for setuptools
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/setuptools/
Reading http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/setuptools/UNKNOWN
Best match: setuptools 0.6c1
Processing setuptools-0.6c1-py2.4.egg
setuptools 0.6c1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/python/bin
Installing easy_install-2.4 script to /usr/local/python/bin

Using /usr/local/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c1-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools
"""

But stil the same error after.