"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'btchip'", however, it also won't let me install 'btchip'

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Environment: Ubuntu 24.04, Electrum 4.5.8

Full error message:

File "/home/computer/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/electrum/plugins/ledger/ledger.py", line 42, in <module>
    from btchip.btchipComm import HIDDongleHIDAPI
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'btchip'
  9.41 | W | plugins.ledger.qt.Plugin | Library version for 'ledger' is incompatible.
Installed: 0.3.0, Needed: 0.2.0 <= x < 0.4.0

It won't also let me install btchip:

python3 -m pip install btchip-python
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting btchip-python
  Using cached btchip-python-0.1.32.tar.gz (20 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [1 lines of output]
      error in btchip-python setup command: 'extras_require' must be a dictionary whose values are strings or lists of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers.
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

I have installed the following (as per https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/hardware-linux.rst):

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
python3 -m pip install hidapi ecdsa ledger-bitcoin  #(but it would not accept btchip-python)

apt show libudev-dev
Package: libudev-dev
Version: 255.4-1ubuntu8.4
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Source: systemd
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 197 kB
Depends: libudev1 (= 255.4-1ubuntu8.4)
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Download-Size: 22.0 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
Description: libudev development files
This library provides APIs to introspect and enumerate devices on the local
system.
.
This package contains the files needed for developing applications that
use libudev.

N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it

apt show libusb-1.0-0-dev
Package: libusb-1.0-0-dev
Version: 2:1.0.27-1
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libusb-1.0
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 328 kB
Depends: libusb-1.0-0 (= 2:1.0.27-1)
Recommends: libusb-1.0-doc
Homepage: http://www.libusb.info
Download-Size: 77.7 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: userspace USB programming library development files
Library for programming USB applications without the knowledge
of Linux kernel internals.
.
This package contains what you need for compiling sources that
use this library in your own code.

pip show ecdsa
Name: ecdsa
Version: 0.19.0
Summary: ECDSA cryptographic signature library (pure python)
Home-page: http://github.com/tlsfuzzer/python-ecdsa
Author: Brian Warner
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /home/computer/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires: six
Required-by: trezor

pip show hidapi
Name: hidapi
Version: 0.14.0.post4
Summary: A Cython interface to the hidapi from https://github.com/libusb/hidapi
Home-page: https://github.com/trezor/cython-hidapi
Author: Pavol Rusnak
Author-email: [email protected]
License:
Location: /home/computer/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires: setuptools
Required-by:

pip show ledger-bitcoin
Name: ledger_bitcoin
Version: 0.3.0
Summary: Client for Ledger Nano Bitcoin application
Home-page: https://github.com/LedgerHQ/app-bitcoin-new
Author: Ledger
Author-email: [email protected]
License:
Location: /home/computer/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires: ledgercomm, packaging, typing-extensions
Required-by:

pip show setuptools
Name: setuptools
Version: 75.6.0
Summary: Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
Home-page:
Author:
Author-email: Python Packaging Authority [email protected]
License:
Location: /home/computer/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: hidapi

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similar issue: spesmilo/electrum#6928

[gitaccount798]

Posted in incorrect repository. Reposted in spesmilo/electrum#9370