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After running 

  sudo python setup.py install (first fixing the includes), 

I attempted to run

  tess-lines alice.png

on the example file, but it died immediately claiming to be unable to import 
_tess

After poking around a bit, I discovered that 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_tess.so was missing world read & 
execute permissions.

Adding them with sudo chmod +rx _tess.so fixed things up so the import worked.

setup.py specifies /usr/local/include and /usr/include/tesseract for includes, 
but with the latest tesseract built from SVN on my system by following the 
instructions in the tesseract wiki, the apitypes.h file actually ends up in 
/usr/local/include/tesseract, not /usr/include/tesseract.

Patching setup.py allowed the build to complete

diff -r b4c26aa2af8c setup.py
--- a/setup.py  Tue Nov 20 15:00:56 2012 +0100
+++ b/setup.py  Tue Nov 20 10:24:28 2012 -0500
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 opts = [x for x in opt.split() if "-W" not in x]
 os.environ["OPT"] = " ".join(opts)

-include_dirs = ['/usr/local/include',"/usr/include/tesseract"]
+include_dirs = ['/usr/local/include',"/usr/local/include/tesseract"]
 swig_opts = ["-c++"] + ["-I" + d for d in include_dirs]
 swiglib = os.popen("swig -swiglib").read()[:-1]