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

[Marco Sulla]

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

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[hongy...@gmail.com]

On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 6:15:53 AM UTC+8, Marco Sulla wrote:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/584857/distutilsextra-problem

I found its Git repository using the following method:

$ for i in python-distutils-extra python3-distutils-extra; do apt showsrc $i |& grep git; done | sort -u
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-distutils-extra.git

Therefore, for developers, the more robust and reasonable pdfarranger installation steps should be as follows:

#https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger#install-from-source
$ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18

$ 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

$ pip install git+https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-distutils-extra.git
$ pip install img2pdf pygobject
$ pip install .

Another note: the python-distutils-extra or python3-distutils-extra is only a dependency in the installation process, once the package is installed, it will no longer be needed.

For a more detailed discussion, please see here [1].

[1] https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/issues/604#issuecomment-1003801361

Regards,
HZ