zlib-sync install: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[Shivam0887]

I was trying to deploy my Next.js 14 project on Vercel. However, I got this error "zlib-sync install: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'". Official Python Docs states that: distutils is deprecated with removal planned for Python 3.12. In particular, setuptools is an enhanced alternative to distutils. https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/distutils.html

Please resolve the issue as soon as possible.

[SuperchupuDev]

had this issue too, it's because the node-gyp version used is the one that comes with pnpm. updating to pnpm v9 solved it for me

[3megabytesofhotram]

Updating pnpm to 9 also fixed it for me