I’m having trouble installing chromadb on a fresh python instance.
Steps to repeat:
pip install chromadb
Result:
error: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 122] Disk quota exceeded
Is there another way to approach this?
Summary: you don’t have enough space. You have to buy more 
You can’t buy disk quota on Replit IIRC…
No? This should have been in a separate topic btw.
I just wanted to know so OP could use other options instead of “buying.” Kinda on topic, kinda not. I’ll delete it.
Or you could have just edited the post to say that you meant account storage and I could have split my post in a different topic.
I have a hacker account, so I’m not sure if that improves my space.
It’s interesting that if I use a template like this:
https://replit.com/template/chroma
It has chromadb included.
Or fork a replit tutorial like this:
https://replit.com/@MckayWrigley/Takeoff-School-LangChain-101-Indexes?v=1
I can run pip install chromadb
However, on a fresh Python replit, no changes, just running pip install chromadb exceeds disk quota.
Is there perhaps another configuration in these templates/tutorials that I am not aware of?
Probably not, except maybe .replit and replit.nix files.
On the above tutorial, this works:
pip install chromadb
However, this failed:
pip install -I chromadb
Now I’m wondering if these projects have their dependencies installed locally then are later uploaded to replit and are skirting around the space requirements.
“I have a hacker account”
Suspicious
You have a paid plan. Thats why you are able to install it. (Extra storage)
A normal account cannot install chromadb.
I have tested this while helping someone else.
I said him the steps; he installed it while i couldnt (he had pro plan)
Source: my result. His post immediately below showed he installed it.(see edit history. Idk why he deleted)
So in short, a regular user cannot install chromadb normally (there may be some way im not aware of)