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Comment by denismi

2 months ago

Hmm..

  pacman -Ss ollama | wc -l                                                                                                              
  16
  pacman -Ss llama.cpp | wc -l
  0
  pacman -Ss lmstudio | wc -l
  0

Maybe some day.

llama.cpp moves too quickly to be added as a stable package. Instead, you can get it directly from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=llama.cpp

There are packages for Vulkan, ROCm and CUDA. They all work.

  • That doesn't make sense. Why would llama.cpp need to move any faster than ollama? For that matter, why not have a llama.cpp package and llama.cpp-git in the AUR?

    • what are you talking about? llama.cpp doesn't need to respect ollamas speed at all. It does not depend on it, it's the opposite of that.

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yay -S llama.cpp

I just installed llama.cpp on CachyOS after reading this article. It’s much faster and better than Ollama.

Then again...

  zypper --no-refresh search llamacpp | tail -n5 | wc -l
  5

Sometimes Arch has the software you want at the version you want, other times it doesn't but other distros do. That's why there's half a billion distros instead of just one.