technovangelist.videoprojects/2024-04-04-build-rag-with-python/readme.md

Build RAG with Python

1. Install the magic tools:

• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libmagic1`
• Windows: You'll need DLLs for libmagic. @julian-r maintains a pypi package with the DLLs, you can fetch it with: pip install python-magic-bin
• Mac: brew install libmagic

2. Get started by installing the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Make sure you have the models listed in config.ini. so for nomic-embed-text, run ollama pull nomic-embed-text. Update the config to show whatever models you want to use.
4. Then run ChromaDB in a separate terminal: chroma run --host localhost --port 8000 --path ../vectordb-stores/chromadb
5. Edit the list of docs in sourcedocs.txt
6. Import the docs: python3 import.py
7. Perform a search: python3 search.py <yoursearch>