no module named distutils

[maxvaneck]

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• I have searched the Inference issues and found no similar bug report.

Bug

i tried to install inference on a fresh virtual environment using both the built in package manager from pycharm and simply pip3 install inference both gave me the error "no module named distutils " attached is the full log
errorlog.txt

Environment

version:
inference 0.15.2
hardware:
x86 based desktop
OS:
ubuntu 24.04
python version:
3.12.3

Minimal Reproducible Example

create a new virtal environment on ubunntu 14.04
run pip3 install inference

Additional

after googling this seems to be an issue with python 3.12 removing distutils. in which case maybe this will help someone else running into the same problem. so this is not technically a bug but maybe something to work around
https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• Yes I'd like to help by submitting a PR!

[iurisilvio]

See #433.

Inference doesn't support Python 3.12 yet because of their dependencies.

[maxvaneck]

i confirmed this using ubuntu 22.04 using python 3.10.12 this works just fine

[iurisilvio]

Thanks! Closing this issue in favor of #433.