title: how to install python distutils
body: <p>I just got some space on a VPS server(running on ubuntu 8.04), and I'm trying to install django on it. The server has python 2.5 installed, but I guess its non standard installation. When I run install script for django, I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>amitoj@ninja:~/Django-1.2.1$ python setup.py install
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      from distutils.core import setup
  ImportError: No module named distutils.core
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm stumped. All the articles on internet tell me how to install modules using distutils. But how do I get distutils itself? Can anyone point me to the archive for distutils? I looked in /usr/lib/local/python2.5, /usr/lib/python2.5 etc, and as expected there is no distutils to be found. </p>