# install scispacy

**URL:** https://support.prodi.gy/t/install-scispacy/4297
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Tags:** solved, spacy, off-topic
**Created:** [June 4, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/install-scispacy/4297 "2021-06-04T11:46:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![aph61](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/aph61/32/417_2.png) [@aph61](https://support.prodi.gy/u/aph61)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/install-scispacy/4297/1 "2021-06-04T11:46:04Z")

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Hi,

I want to run scispacy, but I run into a set of problems. I have created a venv scispacy-env that runs python3.8 (I normally run python 3.6 but one way or another it has upgraded it to python 3.8). In this venv I run the following

pip3 install scispacy

Installing collected packages: scispacy  
Successfully installed scispacy-0.4.0  
(scispacy-env) XXX$ :~/Venvs/scispacy-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages$

I then start notebook (still in the scispacy-env)

(scispacy-env) XXX$ jupyter notebook

I then try to import scispacy and spacy, wiwth this result

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/prodigy/original/2X/8/8bc1957e7e500ab594a3f27d0046676fc84e7de2.png)

or, I'm stuck. Anyone a suggestion where I made the error, and (especially) how to fix it?

thanks,

Andreas

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### Author: ![aph61](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/aph61/32/417_2.png) [@aph61](https://support.prodi.gy/u/aph61)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/install-scispacy/4297/2 "2021-06-04T15:05:49Z")

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Hi all,

I managed to solve the problem; it was a incompatible version issue, and I reverted back to scispacy==0.3.0

Consider it solved

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### Author: ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/install-scispacy/4297/3 "2021-06-07T01:08:29Z")

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Glad you got it working! 👍 In general, th [spaCy discussions forum](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/discussions) or the scispaCy tracker is probably a better place for questions lik this – we're trying to keep this forum very focused on Prodigy.