Ruffus installation error (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'task')

[Aditya-Gautam20]

Hello ,
I was able to install version 2.8.4 ,but I am trying to install Ruffus 2.4.1 , which is a mandatory version in Kronos_pipeline , i get this error , task not found , i see the that task.py is present and the functions to be imported are all present , can someone help with this .Below is the full error.

/ruffus-2.4.1$ pip install ruffus==2.4.1 --upgrade
Collecting ruffus==2.4.1
Using cached ruffus-2.4.1.tar.gz (92 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [8 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
File "", line 34, in
File "/tmp/pip-install-vug5vl6o/ruffus_56d1596ba79341fb8c56b74de1d3c109/setup.py", line 12, in
import ruffus.ruffus_version
File "/tmp/pip-install-vug5vl6o/ruffus_56d1596ba79341fb8c56b74de1d3c109/ruffus/init.py", line 29, in
from task import pipeline_printout, pipeline_printout_graph, pipeline_run, register_cleanup, check_if_uptodate, active_if, split, transform, merge, collate, files, files_re, follows, parallel, stderr_logger, black_hole_logger, suffix, regex, inputs, add_inputs, touch_file, combine, mkdir, output_from, posttask, JobSignalledBreak, runtime_parameter, jobs_limit, formatter, subdivide, originate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'task'
[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.

[IanSudbery]

Looks to me like this might be a python version problem. What version of python is installed? I don't remember how old 2.4.1 is, but is it possible that 2.4.1 was python 2.7 only?

[Aditya-Gautam20]

Yes that was it , thankyou very much , installed