Error installing Python Module "future"

Trying to install netmiko or other modules dependent upon the future module fails with: AttributeError: type object 'Distribution' has no attribute '_finalize_feature_opts'

Full output:

c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python>python -m pip install netmiko
Collecting netmiko
  Using cached netmiko-4.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (196 kB)
Collecting ntc-templates>=2.0.0
  Using cached ntc_templates-3.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (354 kB)
Collecting scp>=0.13.3
  Using cached scp-0.14.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (8.7 kB)
Collecting pyserial
  Using cached pyserial-3.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (90 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: paramiko>=2.7.2 in c:\program files (x86)\prtg network monitor\python\lib\site-packages (from netmiko) (3.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=38.4.0 in c:\program files (x86)\prtg network monitor\python\lib\site-packages (from netmiko) (67.2.0)
Collecting pyyaml>=5.3
  Using cached PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (151 kB)
Collecting textfsm==1.1.2
  Using cached textfsm-1.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (44 kB)
Collecting tenacity
  Using cached tenacity-8.2.1-py3-none-any.whl (24 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\program files (x86)\prtg network monitor\python\lib\site-packages (from textfsm==1.1.2->netmiko) (1.14.0)
Collecting future
  Using cached future-0.18.3.tar.gz (840 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [22 lines of output]
      c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\config\setupcfg.py:520: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: The license_file parameter is deprecated, use license_files instead.
        warnings.warn(msg, warning_class)
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\4\pip-install-6_oje2ib\future_5d406301aa804aba8218cd04b3a5744f\setup.py", line 159, in <module>
          setup(name=NAME,
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 108, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 147, in setup
          _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 475, in __init__
          _Distribution.__init__(
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 283, in __init__
          self.finalize_options()
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 903, in finalize_options
          for ep in sorted(loaded, key=by_order):
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 902, in <lambda>
          loaded = map(lambda e: e.load(), filtered)
        File "c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_vendor\importlib_metadata\__init__.py", line 196, in load
          return functools.reduce(getattr, attrs, module)
      AttributeError: type object 'Distribution' has no attribute '_finalize_feature_opts'
      [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.

c:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\python>

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