For some reason i just cant get past installing stratum ?

osaware@osaware-ub12:/pool$ sudo easy_install stratum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 9, in
    load_entry_point('distribute', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-3.4.1-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 351, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-3.4.1-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2362, in load_entry_point
    raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group,name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install') not found

sudo easy_install also gives errors

have tried on clean ubuntu 12 and clean ubuntu 13 installations in VM's - after doing apt-get update upgrade

any ideas ?