Unable to install, at least on Alpine Linux

[bryankaplan]

Describe the bug

I am attempting to install under Alpine Linux.

$ pip install layoutparser
[…]
    import distutils.core                                                       
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

That makes sense, because distutils has been removed from python as per PEP 632. It would appear setuptools is a dependency, so I installed that and retried.

$ pip install setuptools
[…]
Successfully installed setuptools-70.2.0

$ pip install layoutparser
[…]
AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?

Here's the traceback.

Checklist

• [x] I have searched related issues but cannot get the expected help.
• [x] The bug has not been fixed in the latest version, see the Layout Parser Releases

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use Alpine.
2. Create and activate a virtual environment.
3. Attempt to pip install layoutparser.

Environment

1. Platform: Alpine Linux v3.20
2. Layout Parser version: 0.3.4

Error traceback https://paste.rs/11Fje

[bryankaplan]

I opened this ticket too hastily. It's actually opencv-python bug #988.