Comment 9 for bug 576434

Affected by this issue after a Hardy to Lucid upgrade. I found the workaround in comment #2 aren't quite sufficient since it contains several broken sym-links after the upgrade:

ls -l /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-06-20 12:35 dependency_links.txt -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2010-06-20 12:35 entry_points.txt -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/entry_points.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2010-06-20 12:35 not-zip-safe -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/not-zip-safe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2010-06-20 12:35 PKG-INFO -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/PKG-INFO
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 2010-06-20 12:35 SOURCES.txt -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2010-06-20 12:35 top_level.txt -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/top_level.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2010-06-20 12:35 zip-safe -> /usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/zip-safe

Instead I did:

sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info
sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-setuptools

After which the system has:

ls -l /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2010-06-20 18:27 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info -> ../../../share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info