C1W1 Ungraded lab, server.ipynb protobuf error

Course Q&A Machine Learning Engineering for Production(MLOps) Introduction to Machine Learning in Production
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I was able to set up the virtual environment, but when running ‘import cvlib a cv’ I got the below error
Can you please advise what to do? Thanks in advance!

Qi

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If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc 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: Changes made in May, 2022  |  Protocol Buffers  |  Google Developers

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I am also facing the same issue. Can anyone please guide on how to resolve this?

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I am also facing the same issue… Are the course forums active?

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And I am also facing the same issue. How did you solve the problem?

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I’ve found the solution there:

just add

protobuf==3.20.*

at the end of requirements.txt and make ‘pip install -r requirements.txt’ again