LinuxQuestions.org - imgSeek not installing

I do not have the standard python packagesite path , generally when i install python modules i just use python configure --prefix=/usr/lib64/python2.4/
and it works
with imgSeek its not, there only seems to be setup.py

so i tried

Code:

allix@allix:/mnt/allix/imgSeek-0.8.6$ python setup.py  --prefix=/usr/lib64/python2.4/

#################################### Check for PyQT

PyQt is installed

Qt is recent enough: 3.3.5

#################################### Check QT

Checked.

#################################### Check Python

Checked.

Checked.

Using QT ...

#################################### Installing

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "setup.py", line 236, in ?

    libraries = libraries

  File "/mnt/allix/imgSeek-0.8.6/distutils/core.py", line 137, in setup

    raise SystemExit, gen_usage(dist.script_name) + "\nerror: %s" % msg

SystemExit: usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

  or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

  or: setup.py --help-commands

  or: setup.py cmd --help



error: option --prefix not recognized

An unexpected error occurred during setup.

Please help development by reporting this bug to "imgseek-devel@lists.sourceforge.net".

You have to become root before installing imgSeek. (type "su" and then enter your root password)



imgSeek install complete.

Run it with "imgSeek"

i have tried looking in setup.py and cannot see anything relating to changing the package destination