$ sudo pip install bottle 
Downloading/unpacking bottle
  Downloading bottle-0.10.7.tar.gz (55Kb): 55Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package bottle
Installing collected packages: bottle
  Found existing installation: bottle 0.10.7
    Uninstalling bottle:
      Successfully uninstalled bottle
  Running setup.py install for bottle
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/bottle.py from 640 to 755
    changing mode of /usr/local/bin/bottle.py to 755
Successfully installed bottle

>>> help('modules')
blahblah
bottle
blahblah

$ ls /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
bottle-0.10.7.egg-info  bottle.py  bottle.pyc

но

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bottle
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named bottle

WTF ??? Ubuntu 10.10

РЕШЕНИЕ: # chmod -R 775 /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ - это помощь для меня. Спасибо за все.