/usr/local/bin/unoconv:19: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives

[pctcocom]

/usr/local/bin/unoconv:19: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives from distutils.version import LooseVersion unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system. ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to: https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues

[hasansalimkanmaz]

+1

[Wchert]

+1 how to solve?

[wolframroesler]

Having the same problem, but with a slightly different message:

/usr/bin/unoconv:778: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.
  if product.ooName not in ('LibreOffice', 'LOdev') or LooseVersion(product.ooSetupVersion) <= LooseVersion('3.3'):

Happens when converting a .docx file to a pdf.

For the record: Using Ubuntu 22.04 with the apt-get version of unoconv:

$ unoconv --version
unoconv 0.7
Written by Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
Homepage at http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

platform posix/linux
python 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0]
LibreOffice 7.3.5.2

[rcrath]

+1

[FlameJodie]

+1

[ZiTAL]

Maybe you are trying to convert a docx to doc like me, finally i used libreoffice:

libreoffice --headless --convert-to docx input.doc

libreoffice-writer needed to do that

apt-get install libreoffice-writer

[mariovials]

Any solution?

[dwvisser]

In Ubuntu 24.04, unoconv provided by APT unoconv package fails to run now due to this:

$ which unoconv
/usr/bin/unoconv

$ unoconv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 19, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

The script at /usr/bin/unoconv has a "crunchbang" line of #!/usr/bin/python3, i.e., system Python, as its first line, so without modification, it is essentially broken.

[dwvisser]

A colleague of mine figured out a workaround that would work. Insert the following line

import setuptools.dist

before this line in /usr/bin/unoconv:

from distutils.version import LooseVersion

As you can see, it means running the unoconv script then has a runtime dependency on the setuptools package. On Ubuntu, the easiest way to satisfy this is apt install python3-setuptools.