Twisted Pair Development

I’ve been having problems installing Python on my Ubuntu machine because of errors with setup tools.

During installation you get the following error:

Installing distribute into /home/ting/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.7.3
ERROR: Failed to install setuptools. See /home/ting/.pythonbrew/build.log to see why.
Skip installation of setuptools.

And if you try and use pip / easy_install, you get this:

ImportError: No module named setuptools

It turns out the answer is simple, we’re missing some libraries required to compile it.

sudo apt-get build-dep python2.7

BAM! Pythonbrew works!

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