Installing scvi-tools with conda and with pip

Hi, I am trying to install scvi-tools with conda using conda install scvi-tools -c conda-forge using python 3.8 and also tried with python 3.9

When I import scvi I get the following error: AttributeError: module 'distutils' has no attribute 'version'

I also tried installing scvi-tools with pip: pip install scvi-tools or pip install scvi-tools[tutorials], but got the following error when I import scvi

TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
 1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
 2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).

More information: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/news/2022-05-06#python-updates

How can I install scvi?

Many thanks

[Nasrine26]

Found a workaround by downgrading protobuf package to 3.20.x and now importing scvi works: pip install --upgrade protobuf==3.20.0

[rimelof]

Started a clean environment and installed 0.16.3 with pip. It works now. Thanks!