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+#!/bin/bash
+# nvidia-resiliency-ext>=0.6.0 is required at runtime by megatron-core==0.17.1,
+# but it depends on grpcio-tools>=1.76.0 which requires protobuf>=6.30.0,
+# conflicting with nemo-toolkit==2.4.0 (protobuf~=5.29.5).
+# Install it without deps to avoid the protobuf conflict, then install
+# its safe transitive deps separately.
+pip install --no-deps "nvidia-resiliency-ext>=0.6.0"
+pip install "defusedxml" "httpx>=0.24.0" "nvidia-ml-py>=12.570.86"
+
+# Install the package itself
+PIP_CONSTRAINT= pip install -e .