How to resolve the issue with setuptools

[noahfraiture]

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Hello, from the first day I tried to build this app a few month ago (via AUR), I have the same issue and since lot of people seem to get it working, there might be something I miss. I always have this issue ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'.
However I have installed python-setuptools. I also tried with distribute.
Do I have to install something else ? Or downgrade my python ? I tried to build locally but I don't understand how to do that

[Anonymous941]

Which Python version are you using? Try running python3 -v

[noahfraiture]

I use 3.12.4-3.12.5 on my global system and I tried to built it locally but I have this error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement proton-vpn-api-core (from proton-vpn-gtk-app[development]) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for proton-vpn-api-core

[calexandru2018]

setup-tools is needed for manually building packages. Should be as easy as running
pip3 install <dependencies> then pip3 install .. Don't use pip3 install -r requirements.txt as that is mainly internally for us. Start installing in this order proton-core -> local-agent -> keyring-linux -> core-api -> network-manager -> gtk-app (all of these have to be manually installed).