[Distutils] python setup tools

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jun 17 18:32:30 CEST 2009


At 12:47 PM 6/17/2009 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
>[root at marge2 python]# ./setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
>error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
>/usr/lib/python2.6/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

This means you don't have the python-dev or python-devel package 
installed on your system.  Some OS distributors actually split Python 
into two packages, and you can't run the distutils properly without 
the second one.


>on Fedora core 11.

You can probably also just install the Fedora package for setuptools. 



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