diff --git a/quantum/pennylane/buildpennylane.dockerfile b/quantum/pennylane/buildpennylane.dockerfile
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+# This recipe uses pennylane as a base and 
+# adds some extra python packages
+
+ARG PENNYLANE_VERSION="0.33.1-lightning-kokkos-rocm"
+FROM pennylaneai/pennylane:${PENNYLANE_VERSION}
+ARG PENNYLANE_VERSION="0.33.1-lightning-kokkos-rocm"
+
+ARG REQ_FILE="requirements.txt"
+
+#define some metadata 
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created="2023-11"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="Pascal Jahan Elahi <pascal.elahi@pawsey.org.au>, "
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/PawseySC/pawsey-containers/"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/PawseySC/pawsey-containers/quantum/pennylane/buildpennylane.dockerfile"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.vendor="Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses="GNU GPL3.0"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="Setonix compatible pennylane gpu with python packages"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="PennyLane lightning using kokkos for AMD gpus with extra python packages for analysis"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="pawsey/pennylane:${PENNYLANE_VERSION}}"
+
+# build packages with spack
+# note that the externals here are set based on 
+# building from the pawsey mpich base image 
+WORKDIR /opt/
+COPY ${REQ_FILE} /opt/container_python_requirements.txt
+RUN echo "Adding python packages" \
+    && pip install -r /opt/container_python_requirements.txt \
+    && echo "Finished adding python requirements"
+    
diff --git a/quantum/pennylane/requirements.txt b/quantum/pennylane/requirements.txt
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+ipython==8.12.3
+jupyter==1.0.0
+jupyterlab==4.0.9
+matplotlib==3.7.4
+pandas==2.0.3
+seaborn==0.13.0