Comment 3 for bug 497163

This is unfortunately a known problem, see bug #362570.

First, on Debian/Ubuntu I’d always recommend using the deb package from the PPA. Distutils installations are hell to get rid of, so using the package management is almost always the better way to go.

Second, up to recently, we had problems with installing Genesis to /usr/local. This is why the --prefix thing was recommended. Unfortunately I didn’t think of that Ubuntu bug, so this breaks on current Ubuntu versions. Once /usr/local is fixed as a possible installation path for Genesis (which should be in the next release, thanks to David’s work), you should be able to simply omit the --prefix.

I’m afraid there’s not much we can do about this, so I’d recommend just using the deb package for now or wait for the next release.