diff --git a/.changeset/fine-ways-check.md b/.changeset/fine-ways-check.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d348c0adc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/fine-ways-check.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"gradio": minor
+---
+
+feat:Use `importlib` in favor of deprecated `pkg_resources`
diff --git a/gradio/cli_env_info.py b/gradio/cli_env_info.py
index 5d91718d78..29df6e3441 100644
--- a/gradio/cli_env_info.py
+++ b/gradio/cli_env_info.py
@@ -2,28 +2,37 @@
 for the cli command 'gradio environment'
 """
 import platform
-
-import pkg_resources
+from importlib import metadata
 
 
 def print_environment_info():
-    print("Gradio Environment Information:")
-
-    print("Operating System: ", platform.system())
-    print("\n")
+    print("Gradio Environment Information:\n------------------------------")
+    print("Operating System:", platform.system())
 
     for package_name in ["gradio", "gradio_client"]:
         try:
-            package_dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution(package_name)
-            package_version = package_dist.version
-            print(f"{package_name} version: ", package_version)
-
-            print(f"\n{package_name} Dependencies:")
-            for req in package_dist.requires():
-                print(
-                    f"  {req.project_name}: {pkg_resources.get_distribution(req.project_name).version}"
-                )
-
-            print("\n")
-        except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+            package_version = metadata.version(package_name)
+            print(f"{package_name} version:", package_version)
+        except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+            print(f"{package_name} package is not installed.")
+    print("\n------------------------------------------------")
+    for package_name in ["gradio", "gradio_client"]:
+        try:
+            dist = metadata.distribution(package_name)
+            print(f"{package_name} dependencies in your environment:\n")
+            if dist.requires is not None:
+                for req in dist.requires:
+                    req_base_name = (
+                        req.split(">")[0]
+                        .split("<")[0]
+                        .split("~")[0]
+                        .split("[")[0]
+                        .split("!")[0]
+                    )
+                    try:
+                        print(f"{req_base_name}: {metadata.version(req_base_name)}")
+                    except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+                        print(f"{req_base_name} is not installed.")
+                print("\n")
+        except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
             print(f"{package_name} package is not installed.")
diff --git a/gradio/flagging.py b/gradio/flagging.py
index c98828825e..fe0bae6268 100644
--- a/gradio/flagging.py
+++ b/gradio/flagging.py
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ import time
 import uuid
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections import OrderedDict
-from distutils.version import StrictVersion
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 import filelock
 import huggingface_hub
-import pkg_resources
 from gradio_client import utils as client_utils
 from gradio_client.documentation import document, set_documentation_group
 
@@ -242,16 +240,6 @@ class HuggingFaceDatasetSaver(FlaggingCallback):
         flagging_dir (str): local directory where the dataset is cloned,
         updated, and pushed from.
         """
-        hh_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution("huggingface_hub").version
-        try:
-            if StrictVersion(hh_version) < StrictVersion("0.12.0"):
-                raise ImportError(
-                    "The `huggingface_hub` package must be version 0.12.0 or higher"
-                    "for HuggingFaceDatasetSaver. Try 'pip install huggingface_hub --upgrade'."
-                )
-        except ValueError:
-            pass
-
         # Setup dataset on the Hub
         self.dataset_id = huggingface_hub.create_repo(
             repo_id=self.dataset_id,
diff --git a/gradio/processing_utils.py b/gradio/processing_utils.py
index e4fecdf4fe..d2fd6292cf 100644
--- a/gradio/processing_utils.py
+++ b/gradio/processing_utils.py
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ def _convert(image, dtype, force_copy=False, uniform=False):
     dtype_range = {
         bool: (False, True),
         np.bool_: (False, True),
-        np.bool8: (False, True),
+        np.bool8: (False, True),  # type: ignore
         float: (-1, 1),
         np.float_: (-1, 1),
         np.float16: (-1, 1),
diff --git a/gradio/routes.py b/gradio/routes.py
index 1fbeb9d078..74623ae81f 100644
--- a/gradio/routes.py
+++ b/gradio/routes.py
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ module use the Optional/Union notation so that they work correctly with pydantic
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
+import sys
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
+    from importlib.resources import files
+else:
+    from importlib_resources import files
 import inspect
 import json
 import mimetypes
@@ -23,7 +29,6 @@ import fastapi
 import httpx
 import markupsafe
 import orjson
-import pkg_resources
 from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, File, HTTPException, UploadFile, WebSocket, status
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 from fastapi.responses import (
@@ -52,12 +57,10 @@ from gradio.utils import cancel_tasks, run_coro_in_background, set_task_name
 
 mimetypes.init()
 
-STATIC_TEMPLATE_LIB = pkg_resources.resource_filename("gradio", "templates/")
-STATIC_PATH_LIB = pkg_resources.resource_filename("gradio", "templates/frontend/static")
-BUILD_PATH_LIB = pkg_resources.resource_filename("gradio", "templates/frontend/assets")
-VERSION_FILE = pkg_resources.resource_filename("gradio", "version.txt")
-with open(VERSION_FILE) as version_file:
-    VERSION = version_file.read()
+STATIC_TEMPLATE_LIB = files("gradio").joinpath("templates").as_posix()  # type: ignore
+STATIC_PATH_LIB = files("gradio").joinpath("templates", "frontend", "static").as_posix()  # type: ignore
+BUILD_PATH_LIB = files("gradio").joinpath("templates", "frontend", "assets").as_posix()  # type: ignore
+VERSION = files("gradio").joinpath("version.txt").read_text()
 
 
 class ORJSONResponse(JSONResponse):
diff --git a/gradio/utils.py b/gradio/utils.py
index 0e6ce3fced..66a970964c 100644
--- a/gradio/utils.py
+++ b/gradio/utils.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def colab_check() -> bool:
     """
     is_colab = False
     try:  # Check if running interactively using ipython.
-        from IPython import get_ipython
+        from IPython.core.getipython import get_ipython
 
         from_ipynb = get_ipython()
         if "google.colab" in str(from_ipynb):
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def ipython_check() -> bool:
     """
     is_ipython = False
     try:  # Check if running interactively using ipython.
-        from IPython import get_ipython
+        from IPython.core.getipython import get_ipython
 
         if get_ipython() is not None:
             is_ipython = True
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 83192b499a..3341602419 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ffmpy
 gradio_client>=0.3.0
 httpx
 huggingface_hub>=0.14.0
+importlib_resources>=1.3,<7.0
 Jinja2<4.0
 markdown-it-py[linkify]>=2.0.0
 mdit-py-plugins<=0.3.3