ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'

[tungngovn]

Hi.
Thanks for your great work. I got a problem during installing opendr-toolkit. Does anyone know how to fix it?

My system is Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
My command is: pip install opendr-toolkit
The error message:

Collecting av==8.0.3 (from opendr-toolkit-activity-recognition->opendr-toolkit)
  Using cached av-8.0.3.tar.gz (2.3 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-tb9ljou9/av_52b676c3db1a427286d88630fc8b6890/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
          from distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Andymulb]

I'm receiving the same error message and assume that the error is related to the setuptools python library. However, I didn't find a solution yet.

[passalis]

Thank you for your comments. We are investigating this issue. In the meanwhile, you can consider using docker images which shouldn't have been affected by this update.

[passalis]

As far as I can see, this is a generalized problem with the new version of setutools. For now, you can try downgrading setuptools prior installing the toolkit, e.g., pip3 install setuptools==44.0.0