At 11:11 AM 12/30/2005 -0600, cmire wrote: >I have SuSE 10.0 installed on my machine, and it comes with Python 2.4.1. >I've been trying to build Zope on this box, and I'm getting an error that it >can't find distutils.cmd. I did some digging, and it appears this is part of >distutils.core, and according to the distutils download page, distutils >should be already included with Python versions above 1.6. > >I checked where my system has Python installed, and it's >at /usr/lib/python2.4. I did a find for that directory and all the >subdirectories for anything distutils, and nothing came back. > >Is it just a straightforward thing to download the distutils tar file and >install it, or since it wasn't included with my Python install (and should >have been), is there anything special I should check or be aware of?
Some Linux distributions split Python into multiple system packages; the missing package is probably an RPM (or whatever SuSE uses for packaging) called "python-dev" or "python-devel". Install that and you should be good to go. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
