fedora 11 and panda3d

Installation
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Hello,

here I am again, today I decided to give panda a second shot. This time I tried following the instructions in INSTALL-MK to the letter. So the first step was building the entire thing using the command:

makepanda/makepanda.py --everything

everything seems to work fine, just as before (there is only some warnings about _XOPEN_SOURCE being redefined). The next step in the instructions is to test the build before installing, this is where things fail. I add built/bin to the path and built/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and test any sample program. I always get the same error (this e.g. for the Carousel sample):

$ python Tut-Carousel.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Tut-Carousel.py", line 18, in <module>
    import direct.directbase.DirectStart
ImportError: No module named direct.directbase.DirectStart

The error is the same for all samples. What am I missing?

BTW there is no ppython anywhere to be seen in my system. From what I saw around the forums it is not necessary for linux and I should be ok to use simply python, right?