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Troubleshoot setting up an environment

This document describes how to resolve errors that you might encounter when setting up an environment.

Errors when importing the Vertex AI SDK for Python

If you can't import the Vertex AI SDK for Python, it might be caused by one of the following issues:

Outdated version of the Vertex AI SDK for Python

Issue:

You receive an error message similar to the following:

ImportError: cannot import name 'reasoning_engines' from 'vertexai.preview'

Possible cause:

This might happen if the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform package is earlier than 1.47.0. To check the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform package, run the following command in the terminal:

pip show google-cloud-aiplatform

Recommended solution:

Run the following command in your terminal to update your google-cloud-aiplatform package:

pip install google-cloud-aiplatform --upgrade

Verify your updated version is 1.47.0 or later by running the following command:

pip show google-cloud-aiplatform

If you're in a notebook instance (For example, Jupyter or Colab or Workbench), you might need to restart your runtime to use the updated packages.