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"ollama pull" is pretty close

by dzikimarian 2y ago

dheera 2y ago
Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet? F these curl|sh installs.
- diggan 2y ago
  > Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet? There are three broad groups of people in packaging: A) People who package stuff you and others need. B) People who don’t package stuff but use what’s available. C) People who don’t package stuff and complain about what’s available without taking further action. If you find yourself in group C while having no interest in contributing to group A or working within the limits of group B, then you have two realistic options: either open your wallet and pay someone to package it for you or accept that your complaints won’t change anything. Most packaging work is done by volunteers. If something isn’t available, it’s not necessarily because no one sees value in it—it could also be due to policy restrictions, dependency complexity, or simply a lack of awareness. If you want it packaged, the best approach is to contribute, fund the work, or advocate for it constructively.
  - amelius 2y ago
    This is not entirely fair. We can't all be involved in package management, and GP might contribute in other ways.
- jmorgan 2y ago
  This is a great point. apt-get would definitely be a better install experience and upgrade experience (that's what I would want too). Tailscale does this amazing well: https://tailscale.com/download/linux https://tailscale.com/download/linux The main issue for the maintainer team would be the work in hosting and maintaining all the package repos for apt, yum, etc, and making sure the we handle the case where nvidia/amd drivers aren't installed (quite common on cloud VMs). Mostly a matter of time and putting in the work. For now every release of Ollama includes a minimal archive with the ollama binary and required dynamic libraries: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md#manual-install https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md#man.... But we could definitely do better

"ollama pull" is pretty close

dheera 2y ago

Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet? F these curl|sh installs.

diggan 2y ago
> Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet? There are three broad groups of people in packaging: A) People who package stuff you and others need. B) People who don’t package stuff but use what’s available. C) People who don’t package stuff and complain about what’s available without taking further action. If you find yourself in group C while having no interest in contributing to group A or working within the limits of group B, then you have two realistic options: either open your wallet and pay someone to package it for you or accept that your complaints won’t change anything. Most packaging work is done by volunteers. If something isn’t available, it’s not necessarily because no one sees value in it—it could also be due to policy restrictions, dependency complexity, or simply a lack of awareness. If you want it packaged, the best approach is to contribute, fund the work, or advocate for it constructively.
- amelius 2y ago
  This is not entirely fair. We can't all be involved in package management, and GP might contribute in other ways.
jmorgan 2y ago
This is a great point. apt-get would definitely be a better install experience and upgrade experience (that's what I would want too). Tailscale does this amazing well: https://tailscale.com/download/linux https://tailscale.com/download/linux The main issue for the maintainer team would be the work in hosting and maintaining all the package repos for apt, yum, etc, and making sure the we handle the case where nvidia/amd drivers aren't installed (quite common on cloud VMs). Mostly a matter of time and putting in the work. For now every release of Ollama includes a minimal archive with the ollama binary and required dynamic libraries: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md#manual-install https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md#man.... But we could definitely do better