[Zope] Problems installing Zope 2.7.0

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Thorsten Scherler escribió:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am running Python version 2.3.3 on Linux 2.4.23-ck1 #5 i686 GNU/Linux.
> I downloaded the version 2.7.0 from http://zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0.
>
> I did the following:
> 1)
> thorsten at gatos:~/bin/Zope-2.7.0$ ./configure
> Configuring Zope installation
> Testing for an acceptable Python interpreter...
> Python version 2.3.3 found at /usr/bin/python
> The optimum Python version (2.3.3) was found at /usr/bin/python.
>  - Zope top-level binary directory will be /opt/Zope-2.7.
>  - Makefile written.
>  Next, run make.
>
> 2)
> thorsten at gatos:~/bin/Zope-2.7.0$ make install
> "/usr/bin/python" "/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/setup.py" \
>            build 
> --build-base="/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/build-base/python-2.3" 
> --build-lib="/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/build-base/python-2.3/build-lib" 
> --build-scripts="/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/build-base/python-2.3/build-scripts" 
> --build-temp="/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/build-base/python-2.3/build-temp" 
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/home/thorsten/bin/Zope-2.7.0/setup.py", line 41, in ?
>    import distutils.core
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> make: *** [build] Error 1
>
> ...I am new to Python (but know Java) so if this would be Java I would 
> say that is a classpath problem.
> ...but hopefully somebody knows what is going wrong with my installation.


You need to install python2.3-dev, which contains python distutils.  
This is the Debian package name, but in other distributions it probably 
will have a similar name

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