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- The image pins DOCSGPT_HOME=/app: it ships no checkout, so the data home
  no longer depends on the working directory.
- api, worker, beat and migrate print the data home and env file they
  resolved, so an API and a worker started from different directories show
  it.
- The worker passes -Q only when asked; a bare worker consumes every
  configured queue, which honours EMBEDDINGS_QUEUE and DOCUMENT_PARSE_QUEUE.
- The worker runs through celery.start and returns its exit code; click
  usage errors print usage and exit 2 instead of a traceback.
- Windows: solo pool and no embedded scheduler (celery rejects -B there),
  with a pointer to the new `docsgpt beat` command, which runs the
  scheduler on its own.
- prefetch_models and verify_offline parse their arguments, so --help is
  help rather than a model name.
- A DOCSGPT_ENV_FILE that is not a file raises instead of booting with
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---
title: Install with pip
description: Run the DocsGPT backend from the PyPI package, inside your own Python environment.
---
import { Callout } from 'nextra/components'
# Install with pip
The DocsGPT backend is on PyPI as [`docsgpt`](https://pypi.org/project/docsgpt/): the API server, the Celery worker and the maintenance scripts in one package, behind a single `docsgpt` command. Use it when you want DocsGPT inside your own Python environment or process manager rather than the [Docker images](/Deploying/Docker-Deploying).
<Callout type="info">
The package is the backend only. The web UI ships in the Docker images and in the repository under `frontend/`; serving it from the package is planned.
</Callout>
## Requirements
- Python 3.12 or newer
- [PostgreSQL](/Deploying/Postgres-Migration) for user data, with the `vector` extension if you set `VECTOR_STORE=pgvector`
- Redis for the task queue and the cache
- An LLM: an API key for a hosted provider, or a local model server
## Install
```bash
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install docsgpt
```
Extras add the optional engines:
```bash
pip install "docsgpt[docling]" # DOC_PARSER_ENGINE=docling: OCR backend, structured output
pip install "docsgpt[milvus]" # VECTOR_STORE=milvus
```
The `docling` extra pulls in PyTorch, and on Linux the PyPI torch wheels bring the CUDA stack with them. On a CPU-only machine install the CPU build first, then the extra; pip keeps the torch it already has:
```bash
pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu torch torchvision
pip install "docsgpt[docling]"
```
`uv pip install` accepts the same two commands. With `pipx`, install `docsgpt[docling]` first, then replace the CUDA build inside its environment (`--no-deps` keeps pip from touching torch's dependencies, which the PyTorch index carries in older copies):
```bash
pipx runpip docsgpt install --force-reinstall --no-deps --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu torch torchvision
```
## Configure
DocsGPT keeps its runtime files in a **data home**: the `.env` file it reads settings from, uploaded files under `inputs/` and vector indexes under `indexes/`. The data home is the directory you run the commands from, or the directory `DOCSGPT_HOME` points to. `DOCSGPT_ENV_FILE` points at a `.env` kept somewhere else.
Create a `.env` in the data home. The minimum for a hosted LLM:
```ini
# LLM provider and model: see App Configuration for the options
LLM_PROVIDER=openai
LLM_NAME=<model name>
API_KEY=<provider API key>
# User data
POSTGRES_URI=postgresql://docsgpt:<password>@localhost:5432/docsgpt
# Worker-to-API authentication (required for uploads)
INTERNAL_KEY=<a long random string>
```
Redis defaults to `localhost:6379` (`CELERY_BROKER_URL`, `CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND`, `CACHE_REDIS_URL`). Every setting is listed in [App Configuration](/Deploying/DocsGPT-Settings).
## Run
```bash
docsgpt migrate # create the database if it is missing and apply the migrations
docsgpt api # the API on http://127.0.0.1:7091
docsgpt worker # in a second terminal: the Celery worker, with the scheduler
```
`docsgpt api` listens on localhost only. Pass `--host 0.0.0.0` to accept connections from other machines or containers, and put a reverse proxy with TLS in front of it for anything public.
The API applies pending migrations when it starts (`AUTO_MIGRATE`), so `docsgpt migrate` is the explicit step for deployments that want the schema in place before the first request or that run the API with a restricted database role.
Both commands print the data home they resolved on start-up. Run them from the same directory, or set `DOCSGPT_HOME` for both, so the worker finds the files the API stores and the API finds the indexes the worker builds.
The worker is not optional: query embedding runs on it, so search fails without one. `docsgpt worker --help` lists the queue, concurrency and pool options; `--no-beat` starts a worker without the scheduler when another worker already runs it. On Windows the scheduler cannot be embedded, so run `docsgpt beat` in a third terminal.
Other commands:
- `docsgpt api --reload`: a development server with auto-reload.
- `docsgpt prefetch-models`: download the embedding, tokenizer and parser models ahead of time, for machines that go offline.
- `docsgpt verify-offline`: check that a prepared install starts with networking off.
- `docsgpt reembed`: re-embed every index after changing `EMBEDDINGS_NAME` (see [Upgrading](/upgrading)).
## Upgrade
```bash
pip install -U docsgpt
docsgpt migrate
```
Read the [upgrade notes](/upgrading) first when moving between minor versions.