LM Studio provides an interface to select, configure, and run AI models locally.
Installation
Download the LM studio installer. The AppImage to install the graphical user interface, or the Daemon to use the command line interface from the Terminal.
- Navigate to LM Studio
- Select the Desktop App or the Daemon
- Click the Download button
On Linux (Ubuntu)
Install Fuse
Newer Ubuntu releases do not include FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) to runAppImages. This causes the error message
dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2
AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the –appimage-extract option.
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
for more information
Install FUSE with
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfuse2t64 Install LM Studio
Make the downloaded file executable. Open the Terminal and execute
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x ./LM-Studio-*.AppImageRun LM Studio
./LM-Studio-*.AppImage --no-sandboxConfiguration
Model download and indexing location
If your computer has multiple hard drives, you can configure LM Studio to load and index models at a custom location.
- In LM Studio click the gear icon in the lower left corner, on the General tab click the ellipses (…) next to Model downloads and indexing location and select the new location.
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