`poetry install` reports `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'`

[hogru]

• Poetry version: 1.2.1
• Python version: 3.9.10 (in venv), 3.10.6 in OS
• OS version and name: Ubuntu 22.04
• pyproject.toml: https://gist.github.com/hogru/cfc5354f536b5945372439faec67729d

• I am on the latest stable Poetry version, installed using a recommended method.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• I have consulted the FAQ and blog for any relevant entries or release notes.
• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option) and have included the output below.

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Skipping wheel pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp38-cp38-win32.whl as this is not supported by the current environment
Skipping wheel pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl as this is not supported by the current environment
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Skipping wheel pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_5_i686.manylinux1_i686.manylinux_2_17_i686.manylinux2014_i686.whl as this is not supported by the current environment
Skipping wheel pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-win32.whl as this is not supported by the current environment
Skipping wheel pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl as this is not supported by the current environment

  Stack trace:

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1472 in _run
      1470│                 )
      1471│             else:
    → 1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )

  1  /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:420 in check_output
       418│         kwargs['input'] = empty
       419│ 
    →  420│     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
       421│                **kwargs).stdout
       422│ 

  CalledProcessError

  Command '['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/ea/eb/26/48f70b8979b5485e5b34939e4957ffc0486da8bf749d1081472b8ee6e1/traitlets-5.4.0-py3-none-any.whl']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:524 in run
       520│             # We don't call process.wait() as .__exit__ does that for us.
       521│             raise
       522│         retcode = process.poll()
       523│         if check and retcode:
    →  524│             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
       525│                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
       526│     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
       527│ 
       528│ 

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:49 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
    →  49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
       51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1435 in run_pip
      1433│         pip = self.get_pip_command()
      1434│         cmd = pip + list(args)
    → 1435│         return self._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1436│ 
      1437│     def run_python_script(self, content: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1712 in _run
      1710│     def _run(self, cmd: list[str], **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:
      1711│         kwargs["env"] = self.get_temp_environ(environ=kwargs.get("env"))
    → 1712│         return super()._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1713│ 
      1714│     def get_temp_environ(

  EnvCommandError

  Command ['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/ea/eb/26/48f70b8979b5485e5b34939e4957ffc0486da8bf749d1081472b8ee6e1/traitlets-5.4.0-py3-none-any.whl'] errored with the following return code 1, and output: 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
      return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 9, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 24, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.parser import ConfigOptionParser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/parser.py", line 12, in <module>
      from pip._internal.configuration import Configuration, ConfigurationError
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/configuration.py", line 26, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.logging import getLogger
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 42, in <module>
      from pip._internal.locations import get_major_minor_version
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py", line 67, in <module>
      from . import _distutils
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py", line 20, in <module>
      from distutils.cmd import Command as DistutilsCommand
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'
  

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1476 in _run
      1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )
      1475│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 1476│             raise EnvCommandError(e, input=input_)
      1477│ 
      1478│         return decode(output)
      1479│ 
      1480│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  5  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:253 in _execute_operation
      251│ 
      252│             try:
    → 253│                 result = self._do_execute_operation(operation)
      254│             except EnvCommandError as e:
      255│                 if e.e.returncode == -2:

  4  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:326 in _do_execute_operation
      324│             return 0
      325│ 
    → 326│         result: int = getattr(self, f"_execute_{method}")(operation)
      327│ 
      328│         if result != 0:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:446 in _execute_install
      444│ 
      445│     def _execute_install(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:
    → 446│         status_code = self._install(operation)
      447│ 
      448│         self._save_url_reference(operation)

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:488 in _install
      486│         )
      487│         self._write(operation, message)
    → 488│         return self.pip_install(archive, upgrade=operation.job_type == "update")
      489│ 
      490│     def _update(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:123 in pip_install
      121│     ) -> int:
      122│         try:
    → 123│             pip_install(req, self._env, upgrade=upgrade, editable=editable)
      124│         except EnvCommandError as e:
      125│             output = decode(e.e.output)

  PoetryException

  Failed to install /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/ea/eb/26/48f70b8979b5485e5b34939e4957ffc0486da8bf749d1081472b8ee6e1/traitlets-5.4.0-py3-none-any.whl

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:51 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
       49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
    →  51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e
       52│ 


  Stack trace:

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1472 in _run
      1470│                 )
      1471│             else:
    → 1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )

  1  /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:420 in check_output
       418│         kwargs['input'] = empty
       419│ 
    →  420│     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
       421│                **kwargs).stdout
       422│ 

  CalledProcessError

  Command '['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/62/f0/59/eeccc31c495183d61944cc7da7adc89fecd84f334e12642effe639ec20/attrs-22.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:524 in run
       520│             # We don't call process.wait() as .__exit__ does that for us.
       521│             raise
       522│         retcode = process.poll()
       523│         if check and retcode:
    →  524│             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
       525│                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
       526│     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
       527│ 
       528│ 

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:49 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
    →  49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
       51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1435 in run_pip
      1433│         pip = self.get_pip_command()
      1434│         cmd = pip + list(args)
    → 1435│         return self._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1436│ 
      1437│     def run_python_script(self, content: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1712 in _run
      1710│     def _run(self, cmd: list[str], **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:
      1711│         kwargs["env"] = self.get_temp_environ(environ=kwargs.get("env"))
    → 1712│         return super()._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1713│ 
      1714│     def get_temp_environ(

  EnvCommandError

  Command ['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/62/f0/59/eeccc31c495183d61944cc7da7adc89fecd84f334e12642effe639ec20/attrs-22.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl'] errored with the following return code 1, and output: 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
      return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 9, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 24, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.parser import ConfigOptionParser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/parser.py", line 12, in <module>
      from pip._internal.configuration import Configuration, ConfigurationError
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/configuration.py", line 26, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.logging import getLogger
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 42, in <module>
      from pip._internal.locations import get_major_minor_version
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py", line 67, in <module>
      from . import _distutils
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py", line 20, in <module>
      from distutils.cmd import Command as DistutilsCommand
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'
  

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1476 in _run
      1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )
      1475│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 1476│             raise EnvCommandError(e, input=input_)
      1477│ 
      1478│         return decode(output)
      1479│ 
      1480│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  5  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:253 in _execute_operation
      251│ 
      252│             try:
    → 253│                 result = self._do_execute_operation(operation)
      254│             except EnvCommandError as e:
      255│                 if e.e.returncode == -2:

  4  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:326 in _do_execute_operation
      324│             return 0
      325│ 
    → 326│         result: int = getattr(self, f"_execute_{method}")(operation)
      327│ 
      328│         if result != 0:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:446 in _execute_install
      444│ 
      445│     def _execute_install(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:
    → 446│         status_code = self._install(operation)
      447│ 
      448│         self._save_url_reference(operation)

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:488 in _install
      486│         )
      487│         self._write(operation, message)
    → 488│         return self.pip_install(archive, upgrade=operation.job_type == "update")
      489│ 
      490│     def _update(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:123 in pip_install
      121│     ) -> int:
      122│         try:
    → 123│             pip_install(req, self._env, upgrade=upgrade, editable=editable)
      124│         except EnvCommandError as e:
      125│             output = decode(e.e.output)

  PoetryException

  Failed to install /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/62/f0/59/eeccc31c495183d61944cc7da7adc89fecd84f334e12642effe639ec20/attrs-22.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:51 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
       49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
    →  51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e
       52│ 


  Stack trace:

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1472 in _run
      1470│                 )
      1471│             else:
    → 1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )

  1  /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:420 in check_output
       418│         kwargs['input'] = empty
       419│ 
    →  420│     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
       421│                **kwargs).stdout
       422│ 

  CalledProcessError

  Command '['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/08/9f/47/c16ae03035fc69eaf100ea39657a49baaeef714e25a52575710c34cd48/six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:524 in run
       520│             # We don't call process.wait() as .__exit__ does that for us.
       521│             raise
       522│         retcode = process.poll()
       523│         if check and retcode:
    →  524│             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
       525│                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
       526│     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
       527│ 
       528│ 

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:49 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
    →  49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
       51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1435 in run_pip
      1433│         pip = self.get_pip_command()
      1434│         cmd = pip + list(args)
    → 1435│         return self._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1436│ 
      1437│     def run_python_script(self, content: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1712 in _run
      1710│     def _run(self, cmd: list[str], **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:
      1711│         kwargs["env"] = self.get_temp_environ(environ=kwargs.get("env"))
    → 1712│         return super()._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1713│ 
      1714│     def get_temp_environ(

  EnvCommandError

  Command ['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/08/9f/47/c16ae03035fc69eaf100ea39657a49baaeef714e25a52575710c34cd48/six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl'] errored with the following return code 1, and output: 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
      return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 9, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 24, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.parser import ConfigOptionParser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/parser.py", line 12, in <module>
      from pip._internal.configuration import Configuration, ConfigurationError
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/configuration.py", line 26, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.logging import getLogger
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 42, in <module>
      from pip._internal.locations import get_major_minor_version
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py", line 67, in <module>
      from . import _distutils
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py", line 20, in <module>
      from distutils.cmd import Command as DistutilsCommand
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'
  

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1476 in _run
      1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )
      1475│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 1476│             raise EnvCommandError(e, input=input_)
      1477│ 
      1478│         return decode(output)
      1479│ 
      1480│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  5  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:253 in _execute_operation
      251│ 
      252│             try:
    → 253│                 result = self._do_execute_operation(operation)
      254│             except EnvCommandError as e:
      255│                 if e.e.returncode == -2:

  4  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:326 in _do_execute_operation
      324│             return 0
      325│ 
    → 326│         result: int = getattr(self, f"_execute_{method}")(operation)
      327│ 
      328│         if result != 0:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:446 in _execute_install
      444│ 
      445│     def _execute_install(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:
    → 446│         status_code = self._install(operation)
      447│ 
      448│         self._save_url_reference(operation)

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:488 in _install
      486│         )
      487│         self._write(operation, message)
    → 488│         return self.pip_install(archive, upgrade=operation.job_type == "update")
      489│ 
      490│     def _update(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:123 in pip_install
      121│     ) -> int:
      122│         try:
    → 123│             pip_install(req, self._env, upgrade=upgrade, editable=editable)
      124│         except EnvCommandError as e:
      125│             output = decode(e.e.output)

  PoetryException

  Failed to install /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/08/9f/47/c16ae03035fc69eaf100ea39657a49baaeef714e25a52575710c34cd48/six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:51 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
       49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
    →  51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e
       52│ 


  Stack trace:

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1472 in _run
      1470│                 )
      1471│             else:
    → 1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )

  1  /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:420 in check_output
       418│         kwargs['input'] = empty
       419│ 
    →  420│     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
       421│                **kwargs).stdout
       422│ 

  CalledProcessError

  Command '['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/0a/90/60/922630fb195d328e65883c7ca534e135921b3a28c1473b2468ff04c147/pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at /usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py:524 in run
       520│             # We don't call process.wait() as .__exit__ does that for us.
       521│             raise
       522│         retcode = process.poll()
       523│         if check and retcode:
    →  524│             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
       525│                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
       526│     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
       527│ 
       528│ 

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:49 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
    →  49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
       51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1435 in run_pip
      1433│         pip = self.get_pip_command()
      1434│         cmd = pip + list(args)
    → 1435│         return self._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1436│ 
      1437│     def run_python_script(self, content: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1712 in _run
      1710│     def _run(self, cmd: list[str], **kwargs: Any) -> int | str:
      1711│         kwargs["env"] = self.get_temp_environ(environ=kwargs.get("env"))
    → 1712│         return super()._run(cmd, **kwargs)
      1713│ 
      1714│     def get_temp_environ(

  EnvCommandError

  Command ['/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9', '--no-deps', '/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/0a/90/60/922630fb195d328e65883c7ca534e135921b3a28c1473b2468ff04c147/pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl'] errored with the following return code 1, and output: 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
      return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
    File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 9, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 24, in <module>
      from pip._internal.cli.parser import ConfigOptionParser
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/parser.py", line 12, in <module>
      from pip._internal.configuration import Configuration, ConfigurationError
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/configuration.py", line 26, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.logging import getLogger
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 29, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 42, in <module>
      from pip._internal.locations import get_major_minor_version
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py", line 67, in <module>
      from . import _distutils
    File "/home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py", line 20, in <module>
      from distutils.cmd import Command as DistutilsCommand
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'
  

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/env.py:1476 in _run
      1472│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      1473│                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env, **kwargs
      1474│                 )
      1475│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 1476│             raise EnvCommandError(e, input=input_)
      1477│ 
      1478│         return decode(output)
      1479│ 
      1480│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  Stack trace:

  5  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:253 in _execute_operation
      251│ 
      252│             try:
    → 253│                 result = self._do_execute_operation(operation)
      254│             except EnvCommandError as e:
      255│                 if e.e.returncode == -2:

  4  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:326 in _do_execute_operation
      324│             return 0
      325│ 
    → 326│         result: int = getattr(self, f"_execute_{method}")(operation)
      327│ 
      328│         if result != 0:

  3  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:446 in _execute_install
      444│ 
      445│     def _execute_install(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:
    → 446│         status_code = self._install(operation)
      447│ 
      448│         self._save_url_reference(operation)

  2  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:488 in _install
      486│         )
      487│         self._write(operation, message)
    → 488│         return self.pip_install(archive, upgrade=operation.job_type == "update")
      489│ 
      490│     def _update(self, operation: Install | Update) -> int:

  1  ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/executor.py:123 in pip_install
      121│     ) -> int:
      122│         try:
    → 123│             pip_install(req, self._env, upgrade=upgrade, editable=editable)
      124│         except EnvCommandError as e:
      125│             output = decode(e.e.output)

  PoetryException

  Failed to install /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/artifacts/0a/90/60/922630fb195d328e65883c7ca534e135921b3a28c1473b2468ff04c147/pyrsistent-0.18.1-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl

  at ~/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/utils/pip.py:51 in pip_install
       47│ 
       48│     try:
       49│         return environment.run_pip(*args)
       50│     except EnvCommandError as e:
    →  51│         raise PoetryException(f"Failed to install {path.as_posix()}") from e
       52│ 

Issue

Problem

• I setup a new Ubuntu 22.04 desktop
• I install poetry, works as expected, i.e. I can call poetry --version
• I clone a github repo which I was working with on another machine
• I cd into the directory with the pyproject.toml file
• I run poetry shell
• I run poetry install
• poetry reports errors (see output above), the main one seems to be ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'
• I get the same error when running pip --version in the virtual environment, but not outside of it

What I tried so far

• Checked which pip / pip3 / python / python3 to see whether they use the virtual environment
• (Re-) Install distutils: sudo apt install python3-distutils / sudo apt-get install python3-distutils both in- and outside the virtual environment
• sudo apt-get install python3-apt (as per a web forum recommendation)
• Delete poetry.lock

What else can I do/try. I am not on Linux most of the time so I might easily miss something.

[neersighted]

Can you please try the following?

poetry env remove --all
sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-distutils
poetry install

[hogru]

Thank you for your super fast response!

> poetry env remove --all

==> Deleted virtualenv: /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9

> sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-distutils

==> [sudo] password for stephan: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/139 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 196492 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python3-distutils_3.10.6-1~22.04_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-distutils (3.10.6-1~22.04) over (3.10.6-1~22.04) ...
Setting up python3-distutils (3.10.6-1~22.04) ...

> poetry install

==> "same error/output" 

[neersighted]

For one last sanity check, can you reinstall Poetry using the installer script?

curl https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - --uninstall
curl https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - --version 1.2.1

[hogru]

Did that, but... unfortunately...

> curl https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - --uninstall

==>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 28457  100 28457    0     0   140k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  141k
Removing Poetry (1.2.1)

> curl https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - --version 1.2.1

==> ...
Poetry (1.2.1) is installed now. Great!
...

> poetry install

==> same output/error

[neersighted]

Ah, also, looking closer, your project environment is using Python 3.9. Where is Python 3.9 installed from?

[hogru]

Actually I don't know. Ubuntu came with 3.10. During the first poetry install poetry realized that my python requirements differ from the system python and mentioned that it would install python 3.9. So, which python shows me /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python. I found this very nice/convenient but I don't know where the binary/libs came from. Shall I install it differently and if yes, is there a preferred way? (I am coming from conda and installed it this way in the past)

[neersighted]

Try finding the path to the real binary with /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python -c 'import sys; print(sys._base_executable)'

[hogru]

This gives me (again) /home/stephan/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/molgen-aFkgrORK-py3.9/bin/python. Following the link from this I land at /usr/bin/python3.9 (which itself is the binary). Just guessing... Ubuntu comes with both 3.10 and 3.9?

[neersighted]

This is getting into the realm of local system configuration (and while I did not think this was a Poetry bug before, I am 99% certain it's a local issue now) -- you should be able to find out if it's a package with dpkg -S /usr/bin/python3.9. Ubuntu 22.04 does not package Python 3.9 (and an upgrade from an older version should have replaced it with 3.10). You have some Python 3.9 installed from somewhere, presumably based on Debian packaging as it ships with a broken distutils.

I'm converting this to a discussion as it's pretty clearly a support issue now -- but honestly, I you'll have to do most of the work to figure out what is going on as it's rather difficult for others to try and introspect the state of your machine over the internet.