From 9414e77d156490d71e5752d2ab9d0e28c00eb48b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aayushimasurekar <aayushium@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 17:01:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Changing install.md

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 docs/INSTALL.md | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.md b/docs/INSTALL.md
index 0e1d240..810bfda 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALL.md
+++ b/docs/INSTALL.md
@@ -47,19 +47,26 @@ This document provides step-by-step instructions to install, configure, run, and
 1. Create & activate virtual environment
 
 ```bash
-  cd backend
-  python3 -m venv .venv
-  source .venv/bin/activate
+  For Conda installation, open MacOs terminal
+  curl -L -O https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh
+  bash Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh
+
+
+  Open a new terminal in your IDE and run:
+  ls ~/miniforge3/bin/conda
+  ~/miniforge3/bin/conda init zsh
+  conda create -n se_project python=3.11 faiss-cpu -c conda-forge
+  conda activate se_project
 ```
 
 2. Install Python dependencies
 
 ```bash
-  pip install --upgrade pip
+  pip install --upgrade pip 
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   brew install ffmpeg
-  python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
-  python -m coreferee install en
+  pip install python-multipart
+  pip install deepmultilingualpunctuation
   /Applications/Python\ 3.11/Install\ Certificates.command
 
 ```
@@ -87,9 +94,10 @@ This document provides step-by-step instructions to install, configure, run, and
 
   pip install
   pip install -r requirements.txt
-  python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
   python -m coreferee install en
   brew install ffmpeg
+  pip install python-multipart
+  pip install deepmultilingualpunctuation