[Install issue]: Unable to Run Chroma about chroma

[tazarov]

@ponderMuse, can you try with:

export PYTHONPATH=/mnt/data/apps/chroma:$PYTHONPATH
chroma run

[tazarov]

@ponderMuse, the --target only installs in a target dir so Python itself doesn't have any knowledge of that DIR as it is not on its path.

There are two strategies that people use:

• you can rely on your system's site-packages which are either user-specific or system-wide (if you run with root e.g. sudo) - pip install chromadb
• Use virtual env (install venv package by running pip install virtualenv) - create a virtual environment python -m virtualenv venv (this creates a new virtual env in venv dir. Activate virtual env source ./venv/bin/activate. Install chroma pip install chromadb

The virulent approach allows you to keep the global scope of your Python packages clean but comes at the expense of extra steps.

And last is the approach you've taken above which is similar to the virtual env approach, but slightly simpler.

[ponderMuse]

That's really good detailed info and good to know about the different possible ways of setting up python environments.

For now I've added an export PYTHONPATH instruction to my home folder's .profile file as am currently just doing some PoC work using Chroma db but will follow up with best practices if Chroma becomes more permanent, etc. Thanks again.

[ponderMuse]

Ah, yes. That did it, thanks. I don't know anything about Python or Pip but how come that path is not set as part of the install process? Anyway, I'll close the issue as your answer worked great. Thanks, again.