'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

[huwjeffries at gmail.com]

Hi There,

I've installed python2.4-dev on Unbuntu linux. When I run it, it gives
an error:

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

(Get the same result if I uninstall it and install regular python2.4).

Using -v traceback gives:

'import site' failed; traceback:
ImportError: No module named site

Python is installed in:
/usr/bin/python
/usr/lib/python2.4

File listing of /usr/lib/python2.4:
aifc.py             htmlentitydefs.py     rlcompleter.py
anydbm.py           htmllib.py            robotparser.py
asynchat.py         HTMLParser.py         sched.py
asyncore.py         httplib.py            sets.py
atexit.py           ihooks.py             sgmllib.py
audiodev.py         imaplib.py            shelve.py
base64.py           imghdr.py             shlex.py
BaseHTTPServer.py   imputil.py            shutil.py
Bastion.py          keyword.py            SimpleHTTPServer.py
bdb.py              lib-dynload           SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
binhex.py           lib-old               site-packages
bisect.py           LICENSE.txt           smtpd.py
bsddb               locale.py             smtplib.py
calendar.py         logging               sndhdr.py
CGIHTTPServer.py    _LWPCookieJar.py      SocketServer.py
cgi.py              macpath.py            statcache.py
cgitb.py            macurl2path.py        statvfs.py
chunk.py            mailbox.py            stringold.py
cmd.py              mailcap.py            stringprep.py
codecs.py           markupbase.py         _strptime.py
codeop.py           mhlib.py              sunaudio.py
code.py             mimetools.py          sunau.py
colorsys.py         mimetypes.py          symbol.py
commands.py         MimeWriter.py         symtable.py
compiler            mimify.py             tabnanny.py
config              modulefinder.py       tarfile.py
cookielib.py        _MozillaCookieJar.py  telnetlib.py
Cookie.py           multifile.py          test
csv.py              mutex.py              this.py
curses              netrc.py              _threading_local.py
dbhash.py           new.py                threading.py
decimal.py          nntplib.py            timeit.py
difflib.py          ntpath.py             toaiff.py
dircache.py         nturl2path.py         trace.py
distutils           os2emxpath.py         tty.py
doc                 pdb.doc               tzparse.py
doctest.py          pdb.py                unittest.py
DocXMLRPCServer.py  __phello__.foo.py     urllib2.py
dumbdbm.py          pickletools.py        urllib.py
dummy_threading.py  pipes.py              urlparse.py
dummy_thread.py     pkgutil.py            UserList.py
email               plat-linux2           user.py
encodings           poplib.py             UserString.py
filecmp.py          posixfile.py          uu.py
fileinput.py        pprint.py             wave.py
formatter.py        pty.py                weakref.py
fpformat.py         pyclbr.py             webbrowser.py
ftplib.py           pydoc.py              whichdb.py
getpass.py          Queue.py              whrandom.py
gettext.py          quopri.py             xdrlib.py
gopherlib.py        reconvert.py          xml
gzip.py             regex_syntax.py       xmllib.py
heapq.py            regsub.py             xmlrpclib.py
hmac.py             rexec.py              zipfile.py
hotshot             rfc822.py


Have noticed that python-minimal is installed with Unbuntu and can't be
easily removed, but running "which python" shows it's running the
proper version (python2.4). Any ideas?

Many Thanks,

Huw