error installing packages

[Wouter Vanden Hove]

I'm trying to install Numeric on a mandrake-9.1 box
but I get following error:
[root@localhost numarray-0.9]# python setup.py install
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Using EXTRA_COMPILE_ARGS = []
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 153, in ?
main()
File "setup.py", line 144, in main
setup(**p)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/core.py", line 135, in setup
ok = dist.parse_command_line()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 422, in
parse_command_line
args = self._parse_command_opts(parser, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 469, in
_parse_command_opts
cmd_class = self.get_command_class(command)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 770, in
get_command_class
__import__ (module_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/install.py", line 22, in ?
libname = sys.lib
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lib'
How is this to be solved?
Wouter