Install help

[abbyjerger]

Hi, this is a really cool tool and I'd love some help trying to get it installed.

I've tried quite a few different things but perhaps the best first question to ask is if the install should work on Windows? I've figured out some differences in the commands listed in the README that would be needed for Windows (such as using 'python .\bin\embeddings_manager ls-remote' instead of './bin/embeddings_manager ls-remote'), but is there any other underlying reason why the install might not be successful for Windows?

I've gotten through the Quick Start part of the README, where the last command chainlit run bin/chat-chainlit.py -w will open chainlit in the browser and before I type anything into the chat, the terminal shows warnings such as:

After I type something into the chat and hit enter, it does nothing, and the terminal contains errors such as
psycopg.pool - WARNING - error connecting in 'pool-1': Psycopg cannot use the 'ProactorEventLoop' to run in async mode. Please use a compatible event loop, for instance by setting 'asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy())'
Is this what was meant by the README for the "barebones" Chainlit application, as is therefore to a certain extent the expected behavior?

I continued through the README to see what would happen. I'm now waiting for the Docker image to build and it's been a few hours now. Is that expected behavior as well?

Any suggestions would be appreciated! I can give more details if need be.
Thank you!
-Abby
@djinnome and @augeorge are also interested

[GFJHogue]

Hi @abbyjerger, sorry for the late response on this.
Hopefully I can help shed some light on your questions:

if the install should work on Windows?

The install is primarily intended for Linux.
I personally use WSL to run Ubuntu on Windows 11 (and be sure to enable the WSL2-based engine in your Docker settings).

Is this what was meant by the README for the "barebones" Chainlit application, as is therefore to a certain extent the expected behavior?

Unfortunately the current main branch does no longer support the "barebones" method of running the application (sorry).

I'm now waiting for the Docker image to build and it's been a few hours now.

The Docker build taking hours is certainly not expected. I'm guessing this is probably related to building under Windows.

Alternatively if you're not interested in modifying any code, our main-branch Docker images are all publicly available! In your .env file, set CHAINLIT_IMAGE as below to have the docker compose command automatically pull the image being used on our main website (https://reactome.org/chat):

CHAINLIT_IMAGE=public.ecr.aws/reactome/reactome-chatbot:2044791

The part after : can be set to any commit ID from our main branch.

Hope this helps :)