I had this issue myself on Windows, because PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME weren't set for the account under which Splunk was running. Until these were set correctly the UF went looking for Splunk specific python scripts and locations. Further I had to ensure that both of these locations were in the PATH before splunk used a remote python exe
Make sure Python.exe isn't in the Splunk path and the above is set should get the app working for you.
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