linux redhat 6 and installing easy_install

linux redhat 6 and installing easy_install

I'm completely new at this and needed a bit of help.
I've got a hosted server running Linux Redhat 6 and using Python 2.7
(which has just been set as the default from Python 2.6) located at
/usr/local/bin/python2.7
I'm trying to setup easy_install on the server, but I'm not sure if i'm
doing it correctly, on the bash screen i'm running: sudo apt-get install
python-setuptools
But it keeps asking for a sudo password, which i'm assuming is my normal
admin password that i've used to login via SSH? I've used my admin
password and my root password which both don't seem to work, can any one
help? Maybe it's an over sight from my side (being a newbie). Thanks
Gareth