diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bec0424ac..bb4dc6f37 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "rich-click>=1.7.0,<1.8.0",
     "ruamel.yaml>=0.18.0,<0.19.0",
     "sortedcontainers>=2.4.0",
+    "SQLAlchemy>=2.0.20",
     "stevedore>=5.0.0,<6.0.0",
     "structlog>=21.5.0",
     "tzlocal>=2.1,<6.0",
diff --git a/src/kiara/registries/__init__.py b/src/kiara/registries/__init__.py
index e39e97c54..2bf62b312 100644
--- a/src/kiara/registries/__init__.py
+++ b/src/kiara/registries/__init__.py
@@ -391,14 +391,11 @@ def create_new_store_config(
 
         archive_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(store_base_path, file_name))
 
-        import sqlite3
-
-        print("xxx")
-        print(archive_path)
-
         if not os.path.exists(archive_path):
             Path(archive_path).parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
 
+        import sqlite3
+
         conn = sqlite3.connect(archive_path)
 
         # Create a cursor object