diff --git a/docs/docs/configuration/object_detectors.md b/docs/docs/configuration/object_detectors.md
index 2906a7829..370fdb00a 100644
--- a/docs/docs/configuration/object_detectors.md
+++ b/docs/docs/configuration/object_detectors.md
@@ -980,6 +980,16 @@ YOLOv9 models can be exported using the below code or they [can be downloaded fr
 ```sh
 git clone https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9
 cd yolov9
-wget -O yolov9-t.pt "https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-t-converted.pt"
-python3 export.py --weights ./yolov9-t-converted.pt --imgsz 320 --simplify
+
+# setup the virtual environment so installation doesn't affect main system
+python3 -m venv ./
+bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
+bin/pip install onnx onnxruntime onnx-simplifier>=0.4.1
+
+# download the weights
+wget -O yolov9-t.pt "https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-t-converted.pt" # download the weights
+
+# prepare and run export script
+sed -i "s/ckpt = torch.load(attempt_download(w), map_location='cpu')/ckpt = torch.load(attempt_download(w), map_location='cpu', weights_only=False)/g" ./models/experimental.py
+python3 export.py --weights ./yolov9-t.pt --imgsz 320 --simplify --include onnx
 ```