Update setup.md (Significant-Gravitas#3690)

Co-authored-by: Richard Beales <[email protected]>
lAnviuml · May 19, 2023 · a6d4dea · a6d4dea
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ logs
 *.log
 *.mp3
 mem.sqlite3
+venvAutoGPT
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/

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@@ -211,6 +211,16 @@ docker run -it --env-file=.env -v $PWD:/app --rm auto-gpt --gpt3only --continuou
 
 ### Run without Docker
 
+#### Create a Virtual Environment
+
+Create a virtual environment to run in.
+
+``` shell
+python -m venv venvAutoGPT
+source venvAutoGPT/bin/activate
+pip3 install --upgrade pip
+```
+
 !!! warning
     Due to security reasons, certain features (like Python execution) will by default be disabled when running without docker. So, even if you want to run the program outside a docker container, you currently still need docker to actually run scripts.