ImportError Could not import sentence_transformers python package. Please install it with pip install sentence-transformers.

[happy15]

Hi, I bootstrapped ix with the docker solution and tried to do build a RAG agent with huggingface embedding, which needs sentence-transformers the python lib.

But it seems that sentence-transformers is not included in the docker image and I encountered reply with "ImportError
Could not import sentence_transformers python package. Please install it with pip install sentence-transformers."

Do I miss anything here?

Below is the flow under construction:

[saahil1801]

Hello @happy15 , yes you got that right , we need to install sentence-transformers , a permanent solution is to modify your Dockerfile to include the installation of sentence-transformers. This way, every time you build your Docker image, the sentence-transformers library will be included.
RUN pip install sentence-transformers
Then, you can rebuild your Docker image and restart your container. Also you can verify the same using print(sentence_transformers.version)

[happy15]

ok, thanks for the reply, will try.

[kreneskyp]

Yes, assuming you're building from source add the library to requirements.txt. It should be included in the image when re-built.