[Distutils] A question about installing Distutils

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Jul 30 11:24:30 CEST 2006


On Jul 30, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Sergei Emantayev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install the Distutils libarary since it does not  
> included in my python installation. I run Suse linux. I have python  
> 2.4. I've downloaded the distutils version 1.0.2 (the latest one).  
> When I run 'python setup.py install' from the installation  
> directory, I get the following error:

I can't help you with the error you're getting, but if you want to  
use distutils on most linux distributions you should install the  
development package for python, commonly named 'python-dev' or  
'python-devel'.

Ronald



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