Import module error

[crazyfoxkp]

Hi-
Cannot get past this line -- tried with aksharamukha 2.3, downgraded to 2.2.2

>>> import aksharamukha.transliterate as a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Volumes/External_SSD/swiperfox/My Apps/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Frameworks/LibreOfficePython.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aksharamukha/transliterate.py", line 2, in <module>
    from aksharamukha.gimeltra import Transliterator
  File "/Volumes/External_SSD/swiperfox/My Apps/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Frameworks/LibreOfficePython.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aksharamukha/gimeltra.py", line 10, in <module>
    import regex as re
  File "/Volumes/External_SSD/swiperfox/My Apps/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Frameworks/LibreOfficePython.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/regex/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .regex import *
  File "/Volumes/External_SSD/swiperfox/My Apps/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Frameworks/LibreOfficePython.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/regex/regex.py", line 417, in <module>
    import regex._regex_core as _regex_core
  File "/Volumes/External_SSD/swiperfox/My Apps/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Frameworks/LibreOfficePython.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/regex/_regex_core.py", line 21, in <module>
    import regex._regex as _regex
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'regex._regex'

pip list --

Package            Version
------------------ ---------
aksharamukha       2.2.2
certifi            2025.1.31
charset-normalizer 3.4.1
Deprecated         1.2.18
fonttools          4.56.0
idna               3.10
jaconv             0.4.0
langcodes          3.5.0
language_data      1.3.0
lxml               5.3.1
marisa-trie        1.2.1
pip                23.0.1
pykakasi           2.3.0
PyYAML             6.0.2
regex              2024.11.6
requests           2.32.3
setuptools         76.0.0
unicodedata2       16.0.0
urllib3            2.3.0
wrapt              1.17.2

macOS Sonoma 14.7.1
Mac Mini M1.

Tested same on pop os 22.04 -works great.

What am I missing?
KP

edit-added macOS /linux results