Nextcloud aio install distutils module not found

trying to install nextcloud aio in docker-compose(ubuntu 24.04). among other error messages, it has distutils(python) module not found.
This module is removed from python12.3-ubuntu, which is what I have, based on python web site. I believe all the other error messages are result of the module not found.
Please help.

“Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/docker-compose”, line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point(‘docker-compose==1.29.2’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘docker-compose’)())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/bin/docker-compose”, line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
return next(matches).load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/init.py”, line 205, in load
module = import_module(match.group(‘module’))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/init.py”, line 90, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “”, line 1387, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 1360, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 935, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 995, in exec_module
File “”, line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py”, line 9, in
from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils’”