How to undo a Python setuptools --prefix path blunder

[Kev]

When I installed Python's setuptools I absent mindedly tacked on a --
prefix path I had been using on another machine:

sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/opt/python2.7.2

Now after this blunder when I try to install pip I get the following
error:

[root@kkdev src]# easy_install pip
Searching for pip
Best match: pip 1.0.2
Processing pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg
pip 1.0.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing pip script to /usr/bin
error: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory

What's happening is that a symbolic link is being created that points
to the folder I specified in the --prefix path which is obviously
wrong:

[root@kkdev src]# ls -al /usr/bin/pip
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 5 17:01 /usr/bin/pip -> /opt/
python2.7.2/bin/pip

I deleted this link and then re-ran the setuptools installer and
specified the correct prefix (my Python install lives in /usr/lib/
python2.7):

sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/usr

I then re-ran easy_install pip and it looked like I'd fixed my finger
trouble. However when I went to install virtualenv I encountered the
same problem:

[root@kkdev src]# pip install virtualenv

[uninteresting installer output snipped]

Installing virtualenv script to /usr/bin

error: /usr/bin/virtualenv: No such file or directory

Again the wrong path is being used to create the symbolic link to
where virtualenv is installed:

[root@kkdev src]# ls -al /usr/bin/virtualenv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 5 17:01 /usr/bin/virtualenv -> /opt/
python2.7.2/bin/virtualenv

(I'm running Fedora 15 32bit which has Python 2.7.1 installed out of
the box)

How do I fix/repair this permanently?

Thanks
Kevin

[Matej Cepl]

Dne 6.11.2011 14:18, Kev napsal(a):

> Again the wrong path is being used to create the symbolic link to
> where virtualenv is installed:

http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#administrator-installation
for list of additional configuration files which might go wrong (namely
*.pth and distutils.cfg).

Is that it?

Matěj