installing farm-haystack is taking 5.2 gb space in ubuntu

[i-Anshal]

i am installing haystack using

pip install farm-haystack

alternatively

cloning the git repo

In both the ways, the environment takes 5.2GB space to install which approximately 3GB is for Nvidia installation

my question is there any way I can install and run Haystack without installing Nvidia in ubuntu
I just want to use FARMReader in it no extra dependencies

[julian-risch]

Hi @i-Anshal thank you for bringing this up. We're tracking this issue here: #4233

The installation of cuda packages is caused by the torch dependency installed as an extra of the transformers dependency. You can find it in Haystack's pyproject.toml file.

For now, what you can do to prevent that is to install torch with the following command. There is no CPU version of PyTorch on PyPI (tracked by this issue on GitHub) which is why we need to provide an index-url in the command:

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

Note that as a result FARMReader will be slower on CPU than on GPU.