Here are some notes on getting the debs to work (ugh, I should have used slackware).
export PYTHONPATH="/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program" ldconfig -v /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/ Then you can run export /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/program/python.bin
and import your uno to do some testing.
Ugh.