I've been trying to install fuse-python component of GmailFS (http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html) on Suse Linux 9.1 but seem to have ran into a problem...

linux:/home/user/fuse-python # python setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 7, in ?
from distutils.core import setup, Extension
ImportError: No module named distutils.core

A google search told me the most likely reason for this is i dont have python disutils installed but i couldnt find python-disutils in YaST2 (the package manager for suse). Can anyone here help?