Distutils: Problem with install_path?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I've got Python 1.5.2 installed in /usr/local and I'm trying
to install NumPy. 

I first installed DistUtils and then tried to install NumPy
as per the documentation and got the following error:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 29, in ?
    ext_modules = [('_numpy',
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 72, in setup
    dist = klass (attrs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 196, in __init__
    raise DistutilsSetupError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsSetupError: invalid distribution option 'install_path'

Anybody have any ideas on whats going wrong and/or how to fix it? I've 
had a look at the files mentioned in the error report, but I'm rather 
new to Python and I'm stumped.

Thanks in advance,
Erik
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