ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DistUtilsExtra'

[Marco Sulla]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/584857/distutilsextra-problem

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 18:52, hongy... at gmail.com <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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