Chromadb + Langchain with SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction throwing sqlite3 >= 3.35.0 error, despite sqlite3 3.43.0 being available

Question

I have been trying to use

• Chromadb version 0.4.8
• Langchain version 0.0.276

with SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction as shown in the snippet below.

from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from chromadb.utils import embedding_functions

# other imports
embedding = embedding_functions.SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction(model_name="all-MiniLM-L6-v2")

However, it throws the following error.

RuntimeError: Your system has an unsupported version of sqlite3. Chroma requires sqlite3 >= 3.35.0.

Funfact is I do have the required sqlite3 (3.43.0) available which I can validate using the command sqlite3 --version.

Would appreciate any help. Thank you.