diff --git a/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 206b7d5ff..1ba5864dc
--- a/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 import torch
 import os
 from pprint import pprint
diff --git a/convert-persimmon-to-gguf_requirements.txt b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf_requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f9481c128
--- /dev/null
+++ b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf_requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-r convert_requirements.txt
+torch==2.1.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0f0147cd8..c946b5e4c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 #
 # Package versions must stay compatible across all top-level python scripts.
 #
+
 -r convert_requirements.txt
+
 -r convert-hf-to-gguf_requirements.txt
 -r convert-lora-to-ggml_requirements.txt
+-r convert-persimmon-to-gguf_requirements.txt