Saturday, May 22, 2010

ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from ...> has no 'check_packages' attribute

This error when you run buildout can be solved by upgrading setuptools as follows:

(plone3) $ easy_install -U setuptools

7 comments:

  1. Awesome, thanks. easy_install can be so opaque at times.

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  2. Hit this one when trying to bootstrap by buildout instance. Thanks for saving me a headache!

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  3. You saved me a bunch of time. Thank you!

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  4. thx a lot, saved a lot of time !

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  5. Thank you, very useful information.

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  6. Motherfucking fourthed. Thanks a bunch.

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