diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/tokenizer.py b/dalle2_pytorch/tokenizer.py
index 009ef04..7c01008 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/tokenizer.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/tokenizer.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # to give users a quick easy start to training DALL-E without doing BPE
 
 import torch
-import youtokentome as yttm
 
 import html
 import os
@@ -11,6 +10,8 @@ import regex as re
 from functools import lru_cache
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from dalle2_pytorch.utils import import_or_print_error
+
 # OpenAI simple tokenizer
 
 @lru_cache()
@@ -156,7 +157,9 @@ class YttmTokenizer:
         bpe_path = Path(bpe_path)
         assert bpe_path.exists(), f'BPE json path {str(bpe_path)} does not exist'
 
-        tokenizer = yttm.BPE(model = str(bpe_path))
+        self.yttm = import_or_print_error('youtokentome', 'you need to install youtokentome by `pip install youtokentome`')
+
+        tokenizer = self.yttm.BPE(model = str(bpe_path))
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
         self.vocab_size = tokenizer.vocab_size()
 
@@ -167,7 +170,7 @@ class YttmTokenizer:
         return self.tokenizer.decode(tokens, ignore_ids = pad_tokens.union({0}))
 
     def encode(self, texts):
-        encoded = self.tokenizer.encode(texts, output_type = yttm.OutputType.ID)
+        encoded = self.tokenizer.encode(texts, output_type = self.yttm.OutputType.ID)
         return list(map(torch.tensor, encoded))
 
     def tokenize(self, texts, context_length = 256, truncate_text = False):
diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/trackers.py b/dalle2_pytorch/trackers.py
index 9ae56ff..9204f2e 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/trackers.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/trackers.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from itertools import zip_longest
 import torch
 from torch import nn
 
+from dalle2_pytorch.utils import import_or_print_error
+
 # constants
 
 DEFAULT_DATA_PATH = './.tracker-data'
@@ -15,14 +17,6 @@ DEFAULT_DATA_PATH = './.tracker-data'
 def exists(val):
     return val is not None
 
-def import_or_print_error(pkg_name, err_str = None):
-    try:
-        return importlib.import_module(pkg_name)
-    except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
-        if exists(err_str):
-            print(err_str)
-        exit()
-
 # load state dict functions
 
 def load_wandb_state_dict(run_path, file_path, **kwargs):
diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/utils.py b/dalle2_pytorch/utils.py
index 9d52be2..7208f3e 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/utils.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/utils.py
@@ -17,3 +17,13 @@ class Timer:
 def print_ribbon(s, symbol = '=', repeat = 40):
     flank = symbol * repeat
     return f'{flank} {s} {flank}'
+
+# import helpers
+
+def import_or_print_error(pkg_name, err_str = None):
+    try:
+        return importlib.import_module(pkg_name)
+    except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+        if exists(err_str):
+            print(err_str)
+        exit()
diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/version.py b/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
index e2f45ae..7c9e66e 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.6.5'
+__version__ = '0.6.6'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 199007f..ab2ba08 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ setup(
     'tqdm',
     'vector-quantize-pytorch',
     'x-clip>=0.4.4',
-    'youtokentome',
     'webdataset>=0.2.5',
     'fsspec>=2022.1.0',
     'torchmetrics[image]>=0.8.0'