How to install setup tools on Python 2.7?

Question

When I try

/bin/sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg

it says python 2.7 not found, my python is in

/opt/python27/bin/python

Answer 1

do a PATH=$PATH:/opt/python27/bin

and then try and run the setup again.

You need python in your path.

make sure which python pounts to the one in /opt/python27/bin.