# Cannot initialize deberta-v3-base tokenizer
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**Author:**  [@MagicFlute](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FMagicFlute)%5C
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcannot-initialize-deberta-v3-base-tokenizer%2F15322%2F1 "2022-03-03T19:14:04Z")
when calling
`tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/deberta-v3-base")`
I get a `ValueError: This tokenizer cannot be instantiated. Please make sure you have `sentencepiece` installed in order to use this tokenizer.`
Tried conda` install -c conda-forge transformers[sentencepiece]` as well as `conda install -c conda-forge sentencepiece` to no result
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**Author:**  [@simonschoe](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsimonschoe)%5C
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcannot-initialize-deberta-v3-base-tokenizer%2F15322%2F2 "2022-09-21T12:08:23Z")
Running `pip install sentencepiece` and restarting the kernel should do the trick. 😉
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**Author:**  [@carlosaguayo](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fcarlosaguayo)%5C
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcannot-initialize-deberta-v3-base-tokenizer%2F15322%2F3 "2022-10-09T16:05:52Z")
> [@simonschoe](#):
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> `pip install sentencepiece`
Thank you!