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    <p><font face="Arial">Dear QGIS User,</font></p>
    <font face="Arial">I just tried to upgrade the qfieldsync plugin and
      got this message:<br>
    </font>
    <p><font face="Arial"><span style=" color:#ff0000;"><br>
        </span></font></p>
    <p><font face="Arial"><span style=" color:#ff0000;">An error
          occurred during execution of following code:</span></font></p>
    <p><font face="Arial"><span style=" color:#ff0000;"></span></font></p>
    <font face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">pyplugin_installer.instance().installPlugin('qfieldsync',
        stable=True)</span><br>
    </font>
    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Arial"><br>
        <br>
        Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
          File "", line 1, in <br>
          File
        "C:\OSGeo4W/apps/qgis/./python\pyplugin_installer\installer.py",
        line 437, in installPlugin<br>
            loadPlugin(plugin["id"])<br>
          File
"C:\Users/Martin/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\a00_qpip\plugin.py",
        line 128, in patched_load_plugin<br>
            dialog, run_gui =
        self.check_deps(additional_plugins=[packageName])<br>
                             
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
          File
"C:\Users/Martin/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\a00_qpip\plugin.py",
        line 172, in check_deps<br>
            for requirement in requirements:<br>
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
          File
"C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\_vendor\jaraco\text\__init__.py",
        line 593, in join_continuation<br>
            for item in lines:<br>
          File "", line 322, in decode<br>
        UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in
        position 0: invalid start byte<br>
        <br>
        As far I found out by now this happens also when I tried to
        upgrade or reinstall other plugins.<br>
        <br>
        Does somebody know what is going wrong?<br>
        <br>
        My QGIS-Version: QGIS 3.40.3 and 3.34.15 on Windows 10<br>
        <br>
        Thank you very much<br>
        <br>
        Martin</font><br>
    </font>
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