# Hugging face client not working
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**Author:**  [@crazyymonke](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fcrazyymonke)%5C
**Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhugging-face-client-not-working%2F116917%2F1 "2024-11-10T22:21:59Z")
I’m not good at python and I’m trying to download something that requires it and needs hugging face. I downloaded it and tried doing huggingface-cli login but all I got was this: `'huggingface-cli' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.` I tried re-installing it but that didn’t work. I searched this up and saw people had the same problem. Somebody said to input `python3 -m pip install -U`, `"huggingface_hub[cli]"` or `python3 -m pip install [package_name]` That didn’t work and in that same comment it also said to use a virtual environment if it didn’t work. So I tried setting up an environment in my project directory and following along to the “Installation” guide on the hugging face website. The first line that is `python -m venv .env` worked but the second one for Windows, `.env/Scripts/activate` gives me: `'.env' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.` I have notepad++ installed, vim installed, git installed and is set up to be on notepad++, and I’m running Python 3.12.7. Does anybody have any tips to fix this?
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**Author:**  [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 3:40am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhugging-face-client-not-working%2F116917%2F2 "2024-11-11T03:40:50Z")
Installing a programming environment is a lot of work…
Since it’s a Windows environment, I think the Python PATH is probably not set up correctly, based on the error message.
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> \### Describe the bug
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> after install huggingface\_hub with pip, the huggingface\_cl…i command not found
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> \### Reproduction
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> \### Logs
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> \### System Info
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> \`\`\`shell
> os: MAC OS 11.6.8
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