I'm receiving the following error when I run the command "easy_install imapclient":

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package distribute

root@localhost:/var/www/somedir# easy_install imapclient

install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/

Searching for imapclient

Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/imapclient/

Reading http://freshfoo.com/wiki/CodeIndex

Reading http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/

Best match: IMAPClient 0.8.1

Downloading http://freshfoo.com/projects/IMAPClient/IMAPClient-0.8.1.zip

Processing IMAPClient-0.8.1.zip

Running IMAPClient-0.8.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-BmlBbm/IMAPClient-0.8.1/egg-dist-tmp-5OVaNN

The required version of distribute (>=0.6.24) is not available,

and can't be installed while this script is running. Please

install a more recent version first, using

'easy_install -U distribute'.



(Currently using distribute 0.6.14 (/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages))

error: Setup script exited with 2

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

I've tried running "easy_install -U distribute" as suggested in the above output, which returns the following output:

install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/

Searching for distribute

Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/

Reading http://packages.python.org/distribute

Best match: distribute 0.6.24

Processing distribute-0.6.24-py2.6.egg

distribute 0.6.24 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/bin

Installing easy_install-2.6 script to /usr/local/bin



Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.6.egg

Processing dependencies for distribute

Finished processing dependencies for distribute

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit Server if that helps any.