At 03:42 PM 4/16/2008 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: >For some reason I can not bootstrap setuptools 0.6c8 into a python. > >This is Python 2.5 running under AIX 5.2, and the site-packages >directory is completely empty. I've tried to use just ez_setup.py >with no options, as well as downloading the egg file locally into >a temporary directory and using: > python ez_setup.py -v -H "" setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg > >I get this strange traceback every time: > >Downloading >http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "ez_setup.py", line 267, in <module> > main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "ez_setup.py", line 200, in main > from setuptools.command.easy_install import main > File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, > in <module> > File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/extension.py", line > 1, in <module> >ImportError: No module named core
This is an indication that your distutils installation is broken and/or missing. Make sure that if your OS has a 'python-dev' or 'python-devel' or 'python-distutils' package, that it's installed. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
