Installing Mailman

[Janet Heath]

checking for --with-python... no
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python
checking Python version... 2.7.1
checking Python's email package... ok
checking Japanese codecs... ok
checking Korean codecs... ok
checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error:

***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python
***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager)
***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python
***** from source.  See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for
***** details

When I try to check the configuration ./configure for Mailman, I get
the above messages.