To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

[cloud-user@ip-172-31-23-148 ~]$ ilab model download --repository neuralmagic/Llama-3.2-1B-FP8 --filename model.safetensors --hf-token <my_token>

Downloading safetensors model failed with the following Hugging Face Hub error: Fast download using 'hf_transfer' is enabled (HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1) but 'hf_transfer' package is not available in your environment. Try `pip install hf_transfer`. 

Expected behavior

Download the model  

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Device Info (please complete the following information):

• Hardware Specs: RHEL AI 1.4.1 instance on AWS
• OS Version: 1.4.1
• InstructLab Version: 1.4.1 
• Provide the output of these two commands:
  • sudo bootc status --format json | jq .status.booted.image.image.image to print the name and tag of the bootc image, should look like registry.stage.redhat.io/rhelai1/bootc-intel-rhel9:1.3-1732894187
  • ilab system info to print detailed information about InstructLab version, OS, and hardware – including GPU / AI accelerator hardware

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