[BUG] Deeplake is installed but still doesnt work.

[hiren-2911]

Severity

None

Current Behavior

I am trying to create a db and I have installed deeplake veriosn 4.0.0 installed on my system. But it keeps on saying not installed.

Steps to Reproduce

using mac,
pip install langchain==0.0.208 deeplake openai==0.27.8 tiktoken

Expected/Desired Behavior

It should work fine, when the library is installed without any errors!

Python Version

3.10.0

OS

osx

IDE

vs-cpde

Packages

langchain==0.0.208 deeplake openai==0.27.8 tiktoken

Additional Context

No response

Possible Solution

No response

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• I'm willing to submit a PR (Thank you!)

[davidbuniat]

Hey @hiren-2911 thanks for raising the issue, currently langchain still using deeplake==3.9.26, please stick to 3.9.X version till langchain integration is upgraded to support 4.0, thanks!

[msrco]

Same problem here: Unsolved even with deeplake downgrading to 3.9.26, running langchain 0.2.17.

[m7mdhka]

@msrco you need to install pillow pip install pillow==11.1.0
I have same the same problem after downgrading

[Dushyant5024]

I was able to reproduce this issue.

Root cause:
LangChain currently depends on DeepLake v3.x APIs, while DeepLake v4 has breaking changes.
Even when deeplake==4.0.0 is installed correctly, LangChain fails the import check and raises a misleading error.

Working solution:
pip uninstall deeplake -y
pip install deeplake==3.9.26 pillow==11.1.0

Suggestion:

• Add an explicit version compatibility note in docs

• Improve the ImportError message to mention DeepLake v4 incompatibility

Happy to submit a PR if this approach makes sense.