diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f5d44bd3..619ec1ad 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -12,14 +12,15 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     && curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y \
     && . $HOME/.cargo/env
 
-# Copy only requirements files first to leverage Docker cache
-COPY requirements.txt .
-COPY lightrag/api/requirements.txt ./lightrag/api/
+# Copy pyproject.toml and source code for dependency installation
+COPY pyproject.toml .
+COPY setup.py .
+COPY lightrag/ ./lightrag/
 
 # Install dependencies
 ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
-RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
-RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dir -r lightrag/api/requirements.txt
+RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dir .
+RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dir .[api]
 
 # Install depndencies for default storage
 RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dir nano-vectordb networkx
diff --git a/lightrag/api/requirements.txt b/lightrag/api/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 808f95b5..00000000
--- a/lightrag/api/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-aiofiles
-ascii_colors
-asyncpg
-distro
-dotenv
-fastapi
-httpcore
-httpx
-jiter
-numpy
-openai
-passlib[bcrypt]
-pipmaster
-pydantic
-PyJWT
-python-dotenv
-python-jose[cryptography]
-python-multipart
-pytz
-pyuca
-tenacity
-tiktoken
-uvicorn
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3161337a..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-aiohttp
-configparser
-future
-
-# Additional Packages for export Functionality
-pandas>=2.0.0
-
-# Extra libraries are installed when needed using pipmaster
-
-pipmaster
-pydantic
-python-dotenv
-
-# Unicode Collation Algorithm for proper Chinese sorting
-pyuca
-
-setuptools
-tenacity
-
-# LLM packages
-tiktoken
-xlsxwriter>=3.1.0