[Mailman-Users] distutils is not available or incomplete when ./configure mailman 2.1.23?

[Caesar Samsi]

Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install doc/wiki.

Thank you, Caesar.

> On Dec 13, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 12/13/2016 08:17 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I run configure like this:
>> 
>> ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list --with-groupname=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=list --with-mailhost=YOUR.EMAIL.DOMAIN --with-urlhost=YOUR.WEB.DOMAIN
>> 
>> A few lines later I get:
>> 
>> … checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error: 
>> 
>> ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python
>> ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager)
>> ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python
>> ***** from source.  See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for
>> ***** details
>> 
>> What am I missing?
> 
> 
> sudo apt-get install python-dev
> 
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