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

[Caesar Samsi]

In conclusion for folks searching the archives … the distutils tool is in python-dev package.

To get it do: sudo apt-get install python-dev

> On Dec 14, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Richard Shetron <guest2 at sgeinc.com> wrote:
> 
> You can always search the cache with:
> apt-cache search python
> or
> apt-cache search python-dev
> to get less noise.
> 
> On 12/14/2016 2:58 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>> 
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