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Installation
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This is a standard Python Distutil distribution. To install simply run:
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python setup.py install
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This makes Pexpect available to any script on the machine. You need
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root access to install it this way. If you do not have root access or
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if you do not wish to install Pexpect so that is available to any script
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then you can just copy the pexpect.py file to same directory as your script.
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Trouble on Debian and Ubuntu
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For some stupid reason Debian Linux does not include the distutils module
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in the standard 'python' package. Instead, the distutils module is packaged
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separately in the 'python-dev' package. So to add distutils back
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into Python, simply use aptitude or apt-get to install 'python-dev'.
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As root, run this command:
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apt-get install python-dev
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Why they do this is mysterious because:
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- It breaks the Python model of "batteries included".
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'distutils' isn't an extra or optional module --
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it's parts of the Standard Python Library.
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- The Debian 'python-dev' package is a microscopic 50K installed.
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So what are they saving?
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- Distutils is not only interesting to developers. Many non-development
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oriented Python packages use 'distutils' to install applications.
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- As far as I can tell, the package maintainers must go through
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more trouble to remove 'distutils' from the standard Python
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distribution than it would take just to leave it in.
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