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    "source": [
     "# Getting Started\n",
     "\n",
+    "By default, LangChain uses [Chroma](../../ecosystem/chroma.md) as the vectorstore to index and search embeddings. To walk through this tutorial, we'll first need to install `chromadb`.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```\n",
+    "pip install chromadb\n",
+    "```\n",
+    "\n",
     "This example showcases question answering over documents.\n",
     "We have chosen this as the example for getting started because it nicely combines a lot of different elements (Text splitters, embeddings, vectorstores) and then also shows how to use them in a chain.\n",
     "\n",