From a6d4deaf205537a64b31ff1e1e10b1e3bc5e6fc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Cole <29712567+johnisanerd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 13:39:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update setup.md (#3690)

Co-authored-by: Richard Beales <rich@richbeales.net>
---
 .gitignore    |  1 +
 docs/setup.md | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 816cdb0c..971c3368 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ logs
 *.log
 *.mp3
 mem.sqlite3
+venvAutoGPT
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/docs/setup.md b/docs/setup.md
index 97c5bac8..70b3ac39 100644
--- a/docs/setup.md
+++ b/docs/setup.md
@@ -211,6 +211,16 @@ docker run -it --env-file=.env -v $PWD:/app --rm auto-gpt --gpt3only --continuou
 
 ### Run without Docker
 
+#### Create a Virtual Environment
+
+Create a virtual environment to run in.
+
+``` shell
+python -m venv venvAutoGPT
+source venvAutoGPT/bin/activate
+pip3 install --upgrade pip
+```
+
 !!! warning
     Due to security reasons, certain features (like Python execution) will by default be disabled when running without docker. So, even if you want to run the program outside a docker container, you currently still need docker to actually run scripts.