what I've done after times of searching is: first define some .files: cat ~/.pydistutils.cfg [install] prefix =~
cat .bashrc ---%<--- export PYTHONPATH='/home/briner/lib/python2.3/site-packages:/home/briner/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a1-py2.3.egg' export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:'/home/briner/lib/python2.4/site-packages:/home/briner/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a1-py2.4.egg' ---%<--- the .pydist.. will tell ez_setup to install everyting under your ~ as for /usr or /usr/local ~/lib ~/bin then, because the ez_setup will install some stuff under ~/lib/python2.3/site-packages or ~/lib/python2.4/site-packages that python will have to use, you have to declare the PYTHONPATH as: PYTHONPATH='/home/briner/lib/python2.3/site-packages:/home/briner/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a1-py2.3.egg' for python2.3 and so on for python2.4 so then, you can also put this one in the .bashrc or .tcshrc depending of your shell. Ced.
