# Not installing "Inference"
**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969
**Category:** 🤝 Community Help
**Created:** [May 27, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969 "2024-05-27T20:09:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Satoshi\_Nakamoto](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Satoshi_Nakamoto)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/1 "2024-05-27T20:09:16Z")
An error occurs when performing the installation Inference (pip install inference). What am I doing wrong?
- Object detection
- Windows / Google Chrome
- Screws2 Image Dataset
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### Author:  [@njmarraccini](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/njmarraccini)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/2 "2024-05-28T23:07:04Z")
Hi Satoshi- can you try pip installing disutils into your .venv environment?
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### Author:  [@Satoshi\_Nakamoto](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Satoshi_Nakamoto)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/3 "2024-05-29T07:22:45Z")
Hello Njmarraccini! I can, I just don’t know how! Can you give me any hint? I’m still a weak programmer…
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### Author:  [@leo](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/leo)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/4 "2024-05-29T16:54:42Z")
Hey,
You can install any package using `pip install `, so `pip install disutils`
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### Author:  [@Satoshi\_Nakamoto](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Satoshi_Nakamoto)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/5 "2024-05-29T19:41:12Z")
Hello, leo! I have already solved the installation problem. But now I have another problem. I ran the program:
from inference import get\_roboflow\_model
import supervision as sv
import cv2
image\_file = “10.jpg”
image = cv2.imread(image\_file)
model = get\_roboflow\_model(model\_id=“screws2-wmnvv/1”)
results = model.infer(image)
detections = sv.Detections.from\_roboflow(results[0].dict(by\_alias=True,
exclude\_none=True))
if len(detections) == 10:
print(“10 screws counted. Package ready to move on.”)
else:
print(len(detections), “screws counted. Package is not ready.”)
But now he swears that I didn’t write down the key.
Unauthorized access to roboflow API - check API key. Visit [Authentication | Roboflow Docs](https://docs.roboflow.com/api-reference/authentication#retrieve-an-api-key) to learn how to retrieve one.
Where should I write it?
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### Author:  [@leo](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/leo)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/6 "2024-06-03T23:48:58Z")
Hey @Satoshi_Nakamoto
It looks like you didn’t include the API key necessary when initalizing a model.
You can declare your API key as an environment variable (`ROBOFLOW_API_KEY`) or include it within your model initialization:
```auto
model = get_roboflow_model(model_id=“screws2-wmnvv/1”, api_key="YOUR API KEY")
```
See more details here:
> **[Models: Fine-tuned - Roboflow Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com/quickstart/explore_models/#run-a-private-fine-tuned-model)**
>
> Scalable, on-device computer vision deployment.
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### Author:  [@Satoshi\_Nakamoto](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Satoshi_Nakamoto)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/7 "2024-06-04T10:41:39Z")
Thank you!!! It helped me!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/not-installing-inference/5969/8 "2024-06-11T10:42:00Z")
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