installation of python-dev

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Dominik Müller wrote:
> 
>> I am running Python2.4.3; I need to install Python-dev (or does anybody
>> know an easier way to get distutils.core ? that's what I actually
>> need...).
> 
> umm.  distutils is part of the standard library, so it should be part of
> the core install. what platform are you using, and where did you get the
> 2.4.3 kit ?

I guess it is some linuxish system, as he talks about dev-packages.
Unfortunately, quite a few distros (debian based ones and Suse to my
knowledge) in fact remove distutils from the core and make it available as
extra devel package. For whatever reason...

diez