Build: No module named 'distutils.spawn' #30189

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1. richardlau commented on Oct 31, 2019

   

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   * **Version**: master
   
   * **Platform**: WSL Ubuntu
   
   * **Subsystem**:
   

   I know Node.js doesn't officially support Windows Subsystem for Linux, but I've been quite happily using this to develop on Windows for a while now.

   Some recent change in the last week or two on master seems to be causing a build issue though as I now get the following output when running ./configure -

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "./configure", line 20, in <module>
       from distutils.spawn import find_executable
   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'
   

   I have tried running git clean -fdx.

   Any suggestions as to how to fix this would be a huge help to get going again here.

   The recent change is most likely #30091 which now prefers Python 3 for configure. pypa/pipenv#2922 (comment) suggests a bug in Ubuntu's version of Python.

   A workaround would be to specify the version of Python used to run configure: python2 configure.py or python2.7 configure.py

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3. gengjiawen commented on Oct 31, 2019

   

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   Another workaround

   sudo apt install python3-distutils -y

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4. sam-github commented on Oct 31, 2019

   

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   @gengjiawen If python3-distutils is a required dep of our built for py3, it'd be really helpful if you could PR that to BUILDING.md, if you have time.
5. guybedford commented on Oct 31, 2019

   

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   I can confirm sudo apt install python3-distutils -y fixed the issue here. Thanks so much for the quick responses. Shall I keep this open to track the documentation change?

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6. gengjiawen commented on Nov 1, 2019

   

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   @guybedford @sam-github I will try to add this to documentation, leave this open for now :)
7. cclauss commented on Nov 2, 2019

   

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   The other solution seems to be python3 -m pip install setuptools.
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   changed the title [-]Build issue on WSL[/-] [+]Build: No module named 'distutils.spawn'[/+] on Nov 2, 2019
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14. saladgg commented on Nov 26, 2020

    

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    Linux users

    If;
    sudo apt install python3-distutils -y;
    didn't work for you, ensure you have installed venv globally that corresponds to your python version i.e

    your_com:$sudo apt install python3.9-venv
    your_comp:/Desktop/your_prj$virtualenv venv --python=python3.9
15. cclauss commented on Nov 26, 2020

    

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    distutils is being phased out as explained at https://docs.python.org/3/installing

    Python 3.3 and later has a builtin venv module https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html so virtualenv is not required and you can:

    python3 -m venv .venv
    source .venv/bin/activate
    pip install --upgrade pip
    [ ... ]
    deactivate
    
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