can not find module distutils

[FalcoGer]

Expected Behavior

urh starts

Actual Behavior

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/urh/bin/urh", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/urh/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urh/main.py", line 122, in main
    from urh.controller.MainController import MainController
  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/urh/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urh/controller/MainController.py", line 24, in <module>
    from urh.controller.dialogs.OptionsDialog import OptionsDialog
  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/urh/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urh/controller/dialogs/OptionsDialog.py", line 32, in <module>
    from urh.dev.native import ExtensionHelper
  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/urh/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urh/dev/native/ExtensionHelper.py", line 6, in <module>
    from distutils import ccompiler
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Steps To Reproduce

1. pipx install urh
2. urh
3. no worky
4. `sudo apt install python3-distutils

sudo apt install python3-distutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python3-distutils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python3-distutils' has no installation candidate

5. cd ~/.local/pipx/venvs/urh
6. source bin/activate
7. python3 -m pip install distutils

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement distutils (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for distutils

Screenshots

N/A

Platform Specifications

• OS: Ubuntu MATE (24.04 LTS)
• URH version: package urh 2.9.6, installed using Python 3.12.3
• Python version: 3.12.3
• Installed via pipx

[jopohl]

It will work when you replace step 7 with

python3 -m pip install setuptools

[FalcoGer]

that did it. but i already had python3-setuptools installed through the package manager. Also that should probably be included in the requirements file or whatever else pipx uses..

[FalcoGer]

thank you.