Error with DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources when installing grpcio

I have python 3.12,1 installed and working in a venv

pip is at 23.3.2 setuptools is at 69.0.3

I get a failure when installing grpcio-1.57.0. The output is shown below. Any help would be appreciated!

pip wheel --no-cache-dir --use-pep517 "grpcio (==1.57.0)"
Collecting grpcio==1.57.0
  Downloading grpcio-1.57.0.tar.gz (24.7 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 24.7/24.7 MB 110.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [26 lines of output]
      <string>:43: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/home/richard/headcoach/headCoach-backend/backend-1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/home/richard/headcoach/headCoach-backend/backend-1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/richard/headcoach/headCoach-backend/backend-1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-6dp2h0u2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 325, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-6dp2h0u2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 295, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-6dp2h0u2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 480, in run_setup
          super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-6dp2h0u2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 311, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 292, in <module>
        File "<string>", line 226, in check_linker_need_libatomic
        File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__
          self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
        File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 1950, in _execute_child
          raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
      FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c++'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

I have googled the issue and according to a number of sources this hsould not occur with the versions of pip and setuptools that I am using.

The version you are trying to install grpcio 1.57.0 doesn't support python 3.12.1. You can either install the stable release (grpcio 1.60.0) which supports python 3.12 or downgrade your python version to 3.11 to use the older version of the package.