I am experiencing a persistent dependency conflict in the standard Colab runtime that prevents me from using the `gemini-1.5-flash` model via the new Python SDK.
The default Colab environment enforces an older version of `google-auth` (2.43.0) which conflicts with the requirements for the new `google-genai` SDK (which requires >= 2.47.0). Even after performing a force install and restarting the runtime, the environment appears to default to the deprecated `v1beta` API endpoint, resulting in 404 errors for valid models.
### **Key Errors:**
**1. Dependency Conflict during Install:**
```text
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed.
google-colab 1.0.0 requires google-auth==2.43.0, but you have google-auth 2.47.0 which is incompatible.
```
**2. API Routing Error (404 Not Found):**
Despite explicitly configuring the client for `v1` (Production), the logs show requests being routed to `v1beta`, where the model is not found:
```text
WARNING:tornado.access:404 POST /v1beta/models/gemini-1.5-flash:generateContent
Error: models/gemini-1.5-flash is not found for API version v1beta
```
**3. SDK Syntax Issues:**
When using `google-genai` (0.3.0), I am hitting internal keyword argument errors likely due to version mismatches in the pre-installed packages:
```text
TypeError: Files.upload() got an unexpected keyword argument 'file'
```
### **Steps Taken:**
1. Uninstalled conflicting libraries (`google-genai`, `google-auth`, `google-generativeai`).
2. Fresh install of `google-genai==0.3.0` and `google-auth==2.47.0`.
3. Restarted Runtime (`os.kill(os.getpid(), 9)`).
4. Attempted to run standard file upload and generation scripts.
### **Request:**
Is there a recommended workaround to use the modern `google-genai` SDK in Colab without breaking the auth dependencies required by the `google-colab` internal tools?