python-devel installed; can't find distutils.core

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

I'm trying to install a Python program, rawdog, on a system running SuSE
9.0.  I have Python 2.3 and the development package installed via apt4rpm,
so distutils should be there.  But for some reason Python thinks
otherwise:

port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 # python ./setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 3, in ?
    from distutils.core import setup
ImportError: No module named distutils.core

port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 # head -3 setup.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup

port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 # python -V
Python 2.3+

port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 # rpm -q python python-devel
python-2.3-52
python-devel-2.3.1-0

port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 #

Any ideas on what's causing this and how to fix it?

Regards,
Tristan

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