AmazonLinux [ !! ] Python scripting failed. Python requires package 'distro' or 'platform' to determine the Operating System and Version.

[richardforth]

[ !! ] Python scripting failed. Python requires package 'distro' or 'platform' to determine the Operating System and Version.

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bash-4.2# python3
Python 3.7.10 (default, Jun 3 2021, 00:02:01)
[GCC 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-13)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import distro
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distro'
import platform
platform.linux_distribution()
main:1: DeprecationWarning: dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated in Python 3.5
('', '', '')
platform.
platform.DEV_NULL platform.machine( platform.python_compiler( platform.sys
platform.architecture( platform.node( platform.python_implementation( platform.system(
platform.collections platform.os platform.python_revision( platform.system_alias(
platform.dist( platform.platform( platform.python_version( platform.uname(
platform.java_ver( platform.popen( platform.python_version_tuple( platform.uname_result(
platform.libc_ver( platform.processor( platform.re platform.version(
platform.linux_distribution( platform.python_branch( platform.release( platform.warnings
platform.mac_ver( platform.python_build( platform.subprocess platform.win32_ver(
platform.release()
'3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7.x86_64'
platform.os
<module 'os' from '/usr/lib64/python3.7/os.py'>
platform.platform()
'Linux-3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5'
quit()
bash-4.2# yum search python3-distro
Loaded plugins: ovl, priorities
Warning: No matches found for: python3-distro
No matches found
bash-4.2#

[richardforth]

upgraded to python 3.8 on amazon liinux but the distro package is still missing

its there on Ubuntu 20.04

$ python3
Python 3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import distro
>>> distro.linux_distribution()
('Ubuntu', '20.04', 'focal')
>>>

[richardforth]

https://distro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Lists "Amazon" as AmazonLinux

Yet the python-distro package is not available, and its not built in, I could try pip next?

[richardforth]

Well at least on ubuntu, pip knows about distro, so it might be an option.

[richardforth]

On Ubuntu

$ pip install distro
Requirement already satisfied: distro in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.4.0)

[richardforth]

pip3 install distro

...
Collecting distro
Downloading distro-1.7.0-py3-none-any.whl (20 kB)
Installing collected packages: distro
Successfully installed distro-1.7.0

[richardforth]

Closed, tests passing with deprecation warnings