how to install python distutils

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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 installation  When I run install script for django  I get  amitoj ninja   Django-1 2 1  python setup py install Traceback  most recent call last     File  setup py   line 1  in  lt module gt      from distutils core import setup ImportError  No module named distutils core   I m stumped  All the articles on internet tell me how to install modules using distutils  But how do I get distutils itself  Can anyone point me to the archive for distutils  I looked in  usr lib local python2 5   usr lib python2 5 etc  and as expected there is no distutils to be found

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If the system Python is borked  i e  the OS packages split distutils in a python-devel package  and you can   t ask a sysadmin to install the missing piece  then you   ll have to install your own Python   It requires some header files and a compiler toolchain   If you can   t have those  try compiling a Python on an identical computer and just copying it

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The simplest way to install setuptools when it isn t already there and you can t use a package manager is to download ez setup py and run it with the appropriate Python interpreter  This works even if you have multiple versions of Python around  just run ez setup py once with each Python   Edit  note that recent versions of Python 3 include setuptools in the distribution so you no longer need to install separately  The script mentioned here is only relevant for old versions of Python

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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

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If you are in a scenario where you are using one of the latest versions of Ubuntu  or variants like Linux Mint   one which comes with Python 3 8  then you will NOT be able to have Python3 7 distutils  alias not be able to use pip or pipenv with Python 3 7  see  How to install python-distutils for old python versions Obviously using Python3 8 is no problem

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If you are unable to install with either of these   sudo apt-get install python-distutils sudo apt-get install python3-distutils   Try this instead   sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra   Ref  https   groups google com forum   topic beagleboard RDlTq8sMxro

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you can use sudo apt-get install python3-distutils by root permission   i believe it worked here

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By searching all python-distutils related package  apt-cache search x  I get python3-distutils-extra - enhancements to the Python3 build system Then just try  sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra

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You can install the python-distutils package  sudo apt-get install python-distutils should suffice

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I know this is an old question  but I just come across the same issue using Python 3 6 in Ubuntu  and I am able to solve it using the following command   sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

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The module not found likely means the packages aren t installed  Debian has decided that distutils is not a core python package  so it is not included in the last versions of debian and debian-based OSes  You should be able to do sudo apt-get install python3-distutils sudo apt-get install python3-apt

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