Comment 13 for bug 1217288

K, this works on a fresh clean precise vm:

    wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.9.8.tar.gz
    tar zxvf setuptools-0.9.8.tar.gz
    cd setuptools-0.9.8/
    sudo python setup.py install
    cd
    sudo easy_install pip
    sudo aptitude install libffi-dev
    git clone <email address hidden>:openstack/swift.git
    cd swift/
    sudo python setup.py install

I have an idea for a setuptools patch...