Revision as of 09:46, 5 July 2025

Installing ollama on Rocky 9.x

To install Ollama on local system use following steps:

Install ollama directly from site using:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Check whether ollama service is running via:
```
systemctl status ollama
```
After this run ollama on local system via below commands and test:
```
ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b
```
The above command may take considerable time when run for first time as it download the entire model. deepseek-r1:1.5b model in above example is 1.1GB in size. So first the command will download 1.1GB model and only after that we can prompt ">>>" to type our queries.
The ollama service runs as ollama user with home folder as /usr/share/ollama. Consider moving /usr/share/ollama to partition with more space and create symoblic link at the original place.
To close the system use:
```
/bye
```
Between any two queries which are unrelated we can clear the context using:

/clear

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