Install a soulseek client?

hi all

i'd like to install a soulseek client called nicotine. i tried it with command line

python setup.py install

but this did not work, it gave me the message

no module named distutils.core

so i tried to open it with the package manager and tried to install it from there, but there it told me

</knoppix/share/nicotine-1.0.8.tar.gz ;echo RESULT=$?
sh: installpkg: command not found
RESULT=127

can anyone help me? i'm very new to linux and i'm very frustrated now, no idea what to do... :(

thanks,
josh

Is your Knoppix a HD install? If so, I did an apt-get. From the console,

su
apt-get install nicotine

And it magicially install itself. :D

It is not really a HD install, but I run it with VMWare it I do not use a real CD but an ISO-Image...
Can I install software only from running it from CD? I have a home-dir created and my own config file, would the install work with this environment?

hrm it says it can not find the packet nicotine... :(

edit:
ah, i had to do an

apt-get update

first. :)

but now it tells me "runtime error: could not open display"... :( what to do now?