KiKit SyntaxError

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I am attempting to get KiKit working. To do so I followed the instructions at:

for installation on Linux. My OS is Pop!_OS 20.04, which is based on Ubuntu.
I upgraded the pip command to the latest version, installed setup tools, and installed KiKit, with this command sequence:

sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install setuptools
sudo pip install kikit

I get this response to this command:

$ kikit --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/kikit", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('KiKit==0.6.1', 'console_scripts', 'kikit')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2852, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2443, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2449, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kikit/ui.py", line 15
    raise RuntimeError(f"Fillet radius ({radius} mm) has to be greater than " \
                                                                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What can be done about this error?

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Wasn’t KiKit 1.0 just released? That looks like an old Python 2 version that pip installed. Maybe delete this version and use the PCM to install KiKit 1.0?

Alternatively shouldn’t you be using pip3?

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Run your installation command with python3 and pip3. Your OS defaults python and pip to the deprecated Python 2, but Kikit and KiCAD use Python 3.

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