mySQL on Solaris .8

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I am trying to install a mySQL database in solaris 2.8. I have a copy
    >> of the distro for mySQL-python-0.9.1. When I try to run setup.py, I
    >> am told that I am missing distutils.core

    >> Where do I get this? What package is it part of?

Joe,

It's part of the core Python distribution (since 2.0 or 2.1 I think).
Sounds like either you're running an older version of Python or the one you
have is misinstalled in some way.  Assuming you have MySQL's client libs and
a recent enough version of Python correctly installed, Installing
mysql-python should take less than 30 seconds from the time you execute

    python setup.py install

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