distutils and Debian
Colin J. Williams
cjw at sympatico.ca
Thu Nov 11 13:36:22 EST 2004
Robert Kern wrote:
> Colin J. Williams wrote:
>
>> I have installed the Python*-dev packages, but my present problem
>> centres on installing distutils.
>
>
> Why are you trying to install distutils over the one provided by
> python-dev? It's probably not a good idea.
I am doing this because there is no distutils in the Debian packages for
Python2.3.4 or Python 2.3.4-dev.
Colin W.
>
>> With >python setup.py install, I get:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "setup.py", line 30, in ?
>> packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
>> File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py",
>> line 102, in setup
>> _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>> File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py",
>> line 130, in __init__
>> setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
>> AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute
>> 'get___doc__'
>>
>> I would welcome any suggestion as to how I can work around this.
>
>
> I don't have a clue. It seems to be internal to the Distutils-1.0.2
> source distribution and not using the distutils from python-dev. I
> suggest asking on the distutils mailing list.
>
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