Brownie Import Error: _PyGen_Send [Ubuntu Jelly 22.04]

Question

I just updated my ubuntu os and after had installed the following:

$ python3 -m pip install --user pipx
$ python3 -m pipx ensurepath
$ pipx install eth-brownie

when i launch the brownie console i get the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

• File "/home/user/.local/bin/brownie", line 5, in from brownie._cli.main import main
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/brownie/init.py", line 6, in from brownie.project import compile_source, run
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/brownie/project/init.py", line 3, in from .main import ( # NOQA 401
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/brownie/project/main.py", line 44, in from brownie.network import web3
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/brownie/network/init.py", line 4, in from .account import Accounts
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/brownie/network/account.py", line 12, in import eth_account
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/eth_account/init.py", line 1, in from eth_account.account import ( # noqa: F401
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/eth_account/account.py", line 8, in from cytoolz import (
• File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cytoolz/init.py", line 3, in from .functoolz import *

ImportError: /home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/eth-brownie/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cytoolz/functoolz.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _PyGen_Send

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy

Can someone help me with this? Thanks

Answer 1

I ended up installing python 3.8 and then ran:

pipx install --python python3.8 eth-brownie

If you get errors then you may have to run these commands before you install brownie:

sudo apt install python3.8-distutils
sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev