[Distutils] Newby Question: install easy_install for python2.5 on RHEL

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:22 PM 3/2/2010 -0800, Walter Coole wrote:
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>When I try to install with:
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>                 sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg
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>I get an error:
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>                 error: invalid Python installation: unable to open 
> /usr/lib64/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
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>That I don't really understand.  Yes, it's true that there is no 
>/usr/lib64/python2.5/config directory, but I've gotten along nicely 
>without one for quite a while.

You are probably missing your distribution's "python-dev" or 
"python-devel" package, which is required to use the distutils at 
all, let alone setuptools.