python readline error - please help - need it for scanner!

[benjamin.grant at duke.edu]

can configure, make and install
everything fine.  I'm using python 2.4  I have ubuntu dapper drake. I am
trying to install hplip which requires python.  When I do this, this
also works but while running the following error occurs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hp-setup", line 31, in ?
    import readline, gzip
ImportError: No module named readline



It appears as though for some reaosn the readline module is not being
installed on my system.  Also, it doesn't really seem like python could
possibly be being installed correctly.  If I go to python tools and try
to run ./listmodules I get the following error:


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> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/doc/tools/listmodules", line 183, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/doc/tools/listmodules", line 119, in main
>     os.chdir("Modules")
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Modules'
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