ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output. when trying to install dotenv

Question

I'm trying to install dotenv for my discord bot with pip3 install dotenv but it keeps giving me this error:

   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-xmobtpdk/dotenv/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-xmobtpdk/dotenv/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-xmobtpdk/dotenv/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-xmobtpdk/dotenv/
    Complete output (51 lines):
        ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
         command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-vsx7w_h3
             cwd: /tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/
        Complete output (15 lines):
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
            from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>
            from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setuptools/dist.py", line 7, in <module>
            from setuptools.command.install import install
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setuptools/command/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
            from setuptools.command import install_scripts
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in <module>
            from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory
          File "/tmp/pip-wheel-ts7a2idz/distribute/pkg_resources.py", line 1518, in <module>
            register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
        AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
        ----------------------------------------
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 126, in fetch_build_egg
        subprocess.check_call(cmd)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpa_3vnder', '--quiet', 'distribute']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
    
    The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-xmobtpdk/dotenv/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        setup(name='dotenv',
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 152, in setup
        _install_setup_requires(attrs)
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 147, in _install_setup_requires
        dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 673, in fetch_build_eggs
        resolved_dists = pkg_resources.working_set.resolve(
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 764, in resolve
        dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1049, in best_match
        return self.obtain(req, installer)
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1061, in obtain
        return installer(requirement)
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 732, in fetch_build_egg
        return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
      File "/home/fanjin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 128, in fetch_build_egg
        raise DistutilsError(str(e)) from e
    distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpa_3vnder', '--quiet', 'distribute']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

I'm using Linux and I already tried sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel and tried install dotenv again but that didn't work. I also tried sudo easy_install -U setuptools but that didn't work either. I also tried installing another module and it worked, but not for dotenv.

Answer 1

Oh it's because the package is called python-dotenv not dotenv.