Unable to install benchmarks: No module named 'pkg_resources'

[ajgpitch]

[Sorry if I should have logged this in some support system, but I couldn't find any link to help group or the like]

Following https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuquantum/latest/getting-started/index.html#running-the-nvidia-quantum-benchmarks
I failed to install the benchmarks with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
from File "/tmp/pip-install-e6nl1lg8/cuquantum-python_88aa40e3b6bb40afa49a371456700153/cuda_autodetect.py", line 34, in <module>
Some AI told me that this is because pkg_resources is deprecated, but then it also told me that I could workaround by pinning an older version of setuptools but that didn't work.

[ajgpitch]

I started again using Python 3.13 (rather than 3.14) and the benchmarks build now. I did a few other things differently too, so not definitely that