diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ make
 ls ./models
 65B 30B 13B 7B tokenizer_checklist.chk tokenizer.model
 
+# install Python dependencies
+python3 -m pip install torch numpy sentencepiece
+
 # convert the 7B model to ggml FP16 format
 python3 convert-pth-to-ggml.py models/7B/ 1