Wanted to install the wonderful Cheetah Template Library on Ubuntu Linux and was rewarded with this:
> sudo python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 10, in ?
import SetupTools
File "/home/pcw/download/Cheetah-0.9.16a2/SetupTools.py", line 23, in ?
from distutils.core import setup
ImportError: No module named distutils.core
Found this article which told me to install the python-dev package. Apparently the Ubuntu folk have decided to mess around with the Python standard library and chop it into small bits. I guess they enjoy searching through package lists more than I do.
Peter's Moblog
Thanks that fixed it for me.