Fedora 38: importlib-resources cannot be imported.

[ricardojpinheiro]

Describe the bug I tried to install maestral into my newly installed Fedora 38 Linux here, but I couldn't. It keeps me telling that it cannot import name "path" from "importlib_resources".

To Reproduce So, I did the install sequence, using the following command: python3 -m pip install maestral[gui]

Then, I got this traceback: ricardo@aragorn:~$ maestral start Starting Maestral...Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/maestral/daemon.py", line 378, in start_maestral_daemon from .main import Maestral File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/maestral/main.py", line 46, in from .sync import SyncDirection, SyncEngine File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/maestral/sync.py", line 63, in from . import notify File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/maestral/notify.py", line 17, in from desktop_notifier import DesktopNotifier, Urgency, Button File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/desktop_notifier/init.py", line 2, in from .main import DesktopNotifier, Button, ReplyField, Notification, Urgency File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/desktop_notifier/main.py", line 29, in from .base import ( File "/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/desktop_notifier/base.py", line 22, in from importlib_resources import path as resource_path ImportError: cannot import name 'path' from 'importlib_resources' (/home/ricardo/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/importlib_resources/init.py)

I tried to install importlib-resources (pip install importlib-resources), but it the failure still remains.

System:

• PyQt5: 5.15.9.
• Maestral 1.7.3:
• Python 3.11.4.
• OS: Fedora 38.
• Desktop environment: Gnome 44.

Additional context Well, I hope it can be fixed soon, Maestral is so cool, way better than Dropbox official client.

[jnraptor]

I fixed it by downgrading importlib-resources from 6.0.0to 5.13.0:

pip install --force-reinstall "importlib-resources==5.13.0"

[nrbeaton]

FYI same issue on Ubuntu, both using pipx and installing directly with pip.

[penserbjorne]

Same here.

Fixed with python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall "importlib-resources==5.13.0" --upgrade 'maestral[gui]' inside the virtualenv.

Not possible to fix with pipx.

Thanks.

[samschott]

The issue was in one of the dependencies, desktop-notifier, which relied on a API that was removed in importlib-resources v6.0. Its been updated to use Python's stlib importlib.resources instead now.