No package metadata was found for powerline-shell

jaroMAN · 2 January 2022 20:32

Problem I’m unable to launch terminal as I use powerline:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/powerline-shell", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('powerline-shell==0.5.4', 'console_scripts', 'powerline-shell')())
  File "/usr/bin/powerline-shell", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 919, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 518, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for powerline-shell

I timeshifted back and marked all 3 powerline packages to the ignore list but get same error.

Yochanan · 2 January 2022 20:52

You did read the Announcement post, right?

[Stable Update] 2022-01-02 - Kernels, Systemd, KDE Frameworks, Mesa, Xorg-Server, Wine, Python 3.10

You may need to rebuild any AUR packages that install files to site-packages …
You may need to rebuild any Python packages you’ve installed from the AUR. To get a list of them, you can run:
pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9
And to rebuild them all at once with an AUR helper such as yay, you can do:
yay -S $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9) --answerclean All
But if any of the packages don’t work with Python 3.10 yet, this might fail halfway through and you’ll have to do rebuild the remaining ones one or a few at a time.

pookito · 3 January 2022 16:34

Thank you so much. I saw the post and I knew that I had to rebuilt the list of programs written in py. I did not do the freeze to those programs. Good thing you posted this and after I update them, all at once btw, everything is working back to normal, including my protonvpn which is written in py.

Thank you.