how to install python distutils

Question

I just got some space on a VPS server(running on ubuntu 8.04), and I\'m trying to install django on it. The server has python 2.5 installed, but I guess its non standard install

Answer 1

I ran across this error on a Beaglebone Black using the standard Angstrom distribution. It is currently running Python 2.7.3, but does not include distutils. The solution for me was to install distutils. (It required su privileges.)

    su
    opkg install python-distutils

After that installation, the previously erroring command ran fine.

    python setup.py build