I am running on Windows Powershell. I know, it sucks, but it is what I am stuck with.

I have installed python 3.14 from the python.org website. When I run python and run "import setuptools", it works. When I check the version of setuptools, it is 82.0.0. No problems there.

But pkg_resources will not import. Specifically, "import pkg_resources" always fails.

I have reinstalled using --force-reinstall, I have downloaded the setuptools wheel file, none of that works. It just will not recognize pkg_resources.

Is there no pkg_resources file for Windows? Or what on earth is going on here? Every guide I read just keeps repeating that I should reinstall, but I have done that, multiple times, from multiple sources.

Edit: Problem solved The packages python3 python3-base and python3-devel were installed from the Leap 15.1 Repo and there was a file conflict with the python38 package from the "Main Repository (OSS)" Repo.

I did a zypper rm python3 python3-base python3-devel to remove the packages from the Leap 15.1 Repo and force installed python38, python38-base and python38-devel to install the correct packages again without any file conflicts.

I still don't know whether i should even have the Leap 15.1 Repo though ...
I have disabled the repo now.

---Original Post---

Hello,

when i want to execute any pip command (including just invoking pip without any args) i get the following error:

$ pip
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/pip", line 6, in <module>
     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

I already searched and often when people got this error it was due to a missing setuptools package.

But python3-setuptools is installed via zypper. And pip is the one from python 3.

When i start python3 and run help("modules") many modules are listed but setuptools isn't among them, yet /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools exists and is not empty.

Not sure if related, but i also can't start lutris(also installed with zypper):

$ lutris
Unable to load locale dir, translations won't work.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lutris", line 54, in <module>
    from lutris.gui.application import Application  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lutris

I don't really know anything about python except the few commands i found while searching for a solution, any help would be appreciated :)

edit: im running tumbleweed on the latest snapshot, but this issue has been present for at least a week.

I got this error when trying to build my love2d game with makelove: * Executing task: C:\Users\Eli\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\makelove.exe --config make_all.toml

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main

File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code

File "C:\Users\Eli\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\makelove.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>

File "C:\Users\Eli\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\makelove\makelove.py", line 11, in <module>

import pkg_resources

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

* The terminal process "C:\Users\Eli\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\makelove.exe '--config', 'make_all.toml'" terminated with exit code: 1.

* Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

How do i fix this?