How to get the awx CLI to work with AAP 2.5 GA

Issue

If you have issues trying to get the awx CLI tool from automation-controller-cli-4.6.1-1.el9ap.noarch working, these tips may help.

You have installed automation-controller-cli from the ansible-automation-platform-2.5-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms repo.

When you try to use the awx cli you receive an error:

$ awx
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/awx", line 5, in <module>
    from awxkit.cli import run
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .client import CLI
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/client.py", line 5, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

• or *

$ awx login --conf.host https://example.lan --conf.username admin --conf.password XXXX -k -v
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): example.lan:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://example.lan:443 "GET /api/ HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:awxkit.api.client:"GET https://example.lan/api/" elapsed: 0:00:00.051963
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/client.py", line 136, in fetch_version_root
    self.v2 = self.root.get().available_versions.v2.get()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/api/pages/page.py", line 115, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError("{!r} object has no attribute {!r}".format(self.__class__.__name__, name))
AttributeError: 'Api' object has no attribute 'available_versions'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/__init__.py", line 24, in run
    cli.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/client.py", line 123, in connect
    self.fetch_version_root()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/awxkit/cli/client.py", line 138, in fetch_version_root
    raise RuntimeError('An error occurred while fetching {}/api/'.format(self.get_config('host')))
RuntimeError: An error occurred while fetching https://example.lan/api/