fails to bootstrap on lucid

[Robert Collins]

Creating directory '/home/robertc/launchpad/batchnav/working/bin'.
Creating directory '/home/robertc/launchpad/batchnav/working/parts'.
Creating directory '/home/robertc/launchpad/batchnav/working/eggs'.
Creating directory '/home/robertc/launchpad/batchnav/working/develop-eggs'.
Getting distribution for 'distribute'.
Before install bootstrap.
Scanning installed packages
Setuptools installation detected at /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
Non-egg installation
Removing elements out of the way...
Already patched.
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info already patched.
After install bootstrap.
Creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg-info
error: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg-info: Permission denied
An error occurred when trying to install distribute 0.6.15. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install.
While:
  Bootstrapping.
  Getting distribution for 'distribute'.
Error: Couldn't install: distribute 0.6.15

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

critical (if we can't develop it, we can't fix it)

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

bootstrap is defaulting to 'newest' mode, which is crackful: newer is not better when working with LTS releases.