distutils and Debian

[Colin J. Williams]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Colin J. Williams wrote:
> 
>> I have installed the Python*-dev packages, but my present problem 
>> centres on installing distutils.
> 
> 
> 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.

Colin W.
> 
>> With >python setup.py install, I get:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 30, in ?
>>     packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
>>   File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", 
>> line 102, in setup
>>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>>   File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py", 
>> line 130, in __init__
>>     setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
>> AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute 
>> 'get___doc__'
>>
>> I would welcome any suggestion as to how I can work around this.
> 
> 
> I don't have a clue. It seems to be internal to the Distutils-1.0.2 
> source distribution and not using the distutils from python-dev. I 
> suggest asking on the distutils mailing list.
>