Comment 3 for bug 265619

Something else weird is going on with your installation.
Why did you get this:

(cd email-1.2 ; /usr/bin/python setup.py --quiet install
--install-lib /opt/mailman2.1/pythonlib)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 11, in ?
    from distutils.core import setup
ImportError: No module named distutils.core
make[1]: *** [install-packages] Error 1

i.e. why couldn't Python find distutils.core? Do you have
some weird PYTHONHOME envar setting? Try firing up Python
from the command line and importing distutils.core.

This failure is preventing the rest of misc/Makefile's
install target from completing, which is why bin/update
doesn't find paths.py.

Your Python installation looks messed up.