Huggingface spaces not updating packages from requirements.txt

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Hi @hallisky , thanks for your reply. I tried to find support from HF, but as I read, this in only from Enterprise accounts. For now, the temporary solution I found is to add this code at the beginning of the app.py:

import os
import subprocess

def install(package):
    subprocess.check_call([os.sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", package])

install("transformers")

With that, I forced the code to check the installation of the transformer, and if it isn’t installed, it should install it before running the rest of the code. Hopefully later, we can find an official response from HF of what is the root cause of this issue.

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