python distutils in warty

[mmc at obispo.com]

> On Oct 23, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Eric L.. Howard wrote:
>> At a certain time, now past [Oct.23.2004-11:52:09AM -0700],
>> mmc at obispo.com spake thusly:
>>> Hi All -
>>>
>>> I discovered today that distutils is not included in the default
>>> install
>>> of python 2.3 in warty.  I'm attempting to install SQLObject, which I
>>> didn't find through Synaptic.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
>>
>> python-distutils hasn't been a separate package in Debian since
>> python1.5.
>> If you have python-dev installed [not sure if it's installed by
>> default],
>> the python distutils are included.
>
> Yes, you need to install the package python2.3-dev. There was a
> discussion
> about this here:
> 	https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640


Thanks for the replies.  I don't see the python2.3-dev package in the
Synaptic package manager.  Do I need to configure another package
repository, or ...?

Thanks again,

Miles