ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DistUtilsExtra'

[hongy...@gmail.com]

On Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, I try to install pdfarranger [1] as follows but failed:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-distutils-extra \
                                      python3-wheel python3-gi python3-gi-cairo \
                                      gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 python3-setuptools
$ git clone https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git pdfarranger.git
$ cd pdfarranger.git
$ pyenv shell 3.8.3
$ pyenv virtualenv --system-site-packages pdfarranger
$ pyenv shell pdfarranger 
$ pip install -U pip
$ ./setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 24, in <module>
    from DistUtilsExtra.command import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DistUtilsExtra'


See the following for the package list installed in this virtualenv:

$ pip list 
Package    Version
---------- ------------
pip        21.3.1
pyfiglet   0.8.post1
setuptools 41.2.0
vtk        9.0.20200612

Any hints for fixing this problem? Also see here [2-3] for relevant discussions.

[1] https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
[2] https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/issues/604
[3] https://discuss.python.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-distutilsextra/12834

Regards,
HZ