Installing Mailman

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Janet Heath
<janetcatherine.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What *nix flavor or Linux distro are you running?

Cheers,
Chris