[Distutils] Installing stdeb on vanilla Ubuntu

[Alex Grönholm]

Olof Bjarnason kirjoitti:
> Den 27 september 2009 21.25 skrev Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>:
>   
>> Olof Bjarnason kirjoitti:
>>     
>>> Hi distutils!
>>>
>>> So I'm quite sure stdeb is the tool for "py2deb" I'm looking for.
>>>
>>> What are the "correct" steps of installing this tool, assuming
>>> Ubuntu9.04. I guess I need this:
>>>
>>> 1. Python (check)
>>> 2. distutils (check)
>>>
>>>       
>> Distutils is a part of the standard library, so you can't have Python
>> without distutils anyway.
>>     
>>> 3. setuptools (dunno? how do I install?)
>>>
>>>       
>> As a contributor to the distribute project (the successor to setuptools), I
>> would advise you to download the distribute bootstrap script from:
>> http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup.py
>> Then run it as root, and that's it!
>>     
>
> Um ok but I already got setuptools now. Should I install distribute too?
>
>   
Not necessarily. You should know, however, that setuptools has 
effectively been discontinued and will not get any bug fixes.
The distribute bootstrap will replace setuptools with a fake package, so 
it's a true drop-in replacement.
>>> 4. stdeb (how do I install correctly?)
>>>
>>> As all of you know by now, I'm fairly new to distutils, PyPI, eggs,
>>> cheesecake, setuptools and stdeb. It's a whole new universe! :)
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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