Problem:
After installing chromadb, when we try to start it using the command
chroma run --host localhost --port 8000 --path /home/user/chromadata
Its give this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/dheeyantra/.local/bin/chroma", line 5, in <module>
from chromadb.cli.cli import app
File "/home/dheeyantra/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chromadb/__init__.py", line 79, in <module>
raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: Your system has an unsupported version of sqlite3. Chroma requires sqlite3 >= 3.35.0.
Please visit https://docs.trychroma.com/troubleshooting#sqlite to learn how to upgrade.
Fix:
pip install pysqlite3-binary
vi ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chromadb/__init__.py
#add these lines to the TOP OF THE FILE and save it.
__import__('pysqlite3')
import sys
sys.modules['sqlite3'] = sys.modules.pop('pysqlite3')Start the chromadb. Should work now.
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