From Chad Lester:

> I was setting up a new redhat machine, and had forgotten to install the
> python-devel rpm.  The distutils provide a fairly ugly stack trace / error
> message.  Luckily, it meant something to me... but it's not terribly user
> friendly!
>    
> ...
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line
> 368, in get_config_vars
>     func()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line
> 280, in _init_posix
>     raise DistutilsPlatformError, my_msg
> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python
> installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile (No such
> file or directory)
> 
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