pkg_resources error when following instructions on fedora

[jmriesen]

Fedora 43 x86 host system

pip3 install git+https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool@master
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting git+https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool@master
  Cloning https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool (to revision master) to /tmp/pip-req-build-nq7vnqu2
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool /tmp/pip-req-build-nq7vnqu2
  Resolved https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool to commit 2c2db94d0f12c1e191777076a8c664f063fa1e6f
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [20 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
          json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sontk4bi/overlay/lib/python3.14/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 333, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sontk4bi/overlay/lib/python3.14/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sontk4bi/overlay/lib/python3.14/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 13, in <module>
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

[tmagik]

I'm getting similar errors on MacOS, so it does not entirely seem like a linux issue to me.

[jmriesen]

Found a work around with #114 It looks like one the newer version of setuptools removed pkg_resources

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable/history.html#v82-0-0