$ acestream-launcher -v acestream://...
Connecting to Acestream engine...2018-10-31 23:24:18,668|MainThread|acestream|error during startup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "core.c", line 1590, in
  File "core.c", line 144, in
  File "core.c", line 37, in
  File "/opt/acestream/lib/blist-1.3.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/blist.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/acestream/lib/blist-1.3.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/_blist.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "/opt/acestream/lib/blist-1.3.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/_blist.py", line 3, in __bootstrap__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 77, in <module>
    from . import py31compat
ImportError: cannot import name py31compat
Cannot connect to Acestream engine!

Exiting...