From 11055a22fbd2a898dcced162e112c84510bac2db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "CanbiZ (MickLesk)" <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:38:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(librechat): use python3-venv+pip instead of uv for RAG
 API to handle numpy dependency conflict

---
 ct/librechat.sh              |  2 +-
 install/librechat-install.sh | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ct/librechat.sh b/ct/librechat.sh
index fd9d8f542..e428f9537 100644
--- a/ct/librechat.sh
+++ b/ct/librechat.sh
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ function update_script() {
 
     msg_info "Updating RAG API Dependencies"
     cd /opt/rag-api
-    $STD uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python -r requirements.lite.txt
+    $STD .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.lite.txt
     msg_ok "Updated RAG API Dependencies"
 
     msg_info "Restoring RAG API Configuration"
diff --git a/install/librechat-install.sh b/install/librechat-install.sh
index 9b827d6d9..35fa3dc01 100644
--- a/install/librechat-install.sh
+++ b/install/librechat-install.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ setup_meilisearch
 PG_VERSION="17" PG_MODULES="pgvector" setup_postgresql
 PG_DB_NAME="ragapi" PG_DB_USER="ragapi" PG_DB_EXTENSIONS="vector" setup_postgresql_db
 NODE_VERSION="22" setup_nodejs
-UV_PYTHON="3.11" setup_uv
+
+msg_info "Installing Dependencies"
+$STD apt install -y python3-venv
+msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_tag "librechat" "danny-avila/LibreChat"
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "rag-api" "danny-avila/rag_api" "tarball"
@@ -36,8 +39,9 @@ msg_ok "Built Frontend"
 
 msg_info "Installing RAG API Dependencies"
 cd /opt/rag-api
-$STD uv venv .venv
-$STD uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python -r requirements.lite.txt
+$STD python3 -m venv .venv
+$STD .venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+$STD .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.lite.txt
 mkdir -p /opt/rag-api/uploads
 msg_ok "Installed RAG API Dependencies"