Comment 1 for bug 521050

Successful workaround:

carljm@arugula:~/projects/pip/pip$ cd /usr/lib/
carljm@arugula:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libpython2.6.so.1 libpython2.6.so
[sudo] password for carljm:
carljm@arugula:/usr/lib$ ls -la libpython*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-02-12 11:02 libpython2.6.so -> libpython2.6.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2010-02-11 12:12 libpython2.6.so.1 -> libpython2.6.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2346612 2009-12-07 14:38 libpython2.6.so.1.0
carljm@arugula:/usr/lib$