distutils and Debian

[Dirk Thierbach]

Colin J. Williams <cjw at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:

>> Why are you trying to install distutils over the one provided by 
>> python-dev? It's probably not a good idea.
> I am doing this because there is no distutils in the Debian packages for 
> Python2.3.4 or Python 2.3.4-dev.

$ dpkg -l python2.3-dev
...
ii  python2.3-dev  2.3.4-5        Header files and a static library for Python


$ dpkg -L python2.3-dev 
...
/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/README
/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/__init__.py
...

So either there's something strange with your version of the package
(download a new one), or you didn't look carefully enough.

- Dirk