diff --git a/examples/rwkv/.gitignore b/examples/rwkv/.gitignore
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+models/rwkv
+models/rwkv.tokenizer.json
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/rwkv/Dockerfile.build b/examples/rwkv/Dockerfile.build
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 FROM python
 
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install cmake
+
 # convert the model (one-off)
 RUN pip3 install torch numpy