[Mailman-Users] distutils is not available or incomplete when ./configure mailman 2.1.23?

[Caesar Samsi]

Indeed it is but what tripped me up was it was not python-devel it is actually python-dev

Not quite a developer so didn’t think of trying -dev … :-)

> On Dec 14, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 12/14/2016 10:33 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
>> Ah, now it works. Would be great to see this info in the build & install
>> doc/wiki.
> 
> 
> It's in the installation manual, section 15.1, as it said in the message
> you received.
> 
> 
>>>> … checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error: 
>>>> 
>>>> ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python
>>>> ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager)
>>>> ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python
>>>> ***** from source.  See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for
>>>> ***** details
> 
> 
> The manual is in various formats in the doc/ subdirectory of the
> directory into which you unpacked and ran ./configure. I.e.,
> doc/mailman-install/index.html, doc/mailman-install.dvi,
> doc/mailman-install.pdf, doc/mailman-install.ps and doc/mailman-install.txt.
> 
> It is also online. See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node48.html>
> for the relevant section.
> 
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