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Hmm..

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

Maybe some day.

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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.

The claim was that llama.cpp moves too fast to be in Arch's normal repos. But Arch does package ollama. Therefore, either 1. ollama somehow avoids the need to move fast, or 2. it moves at an acceptable pace when packaged.

Edit: Or perhaps put differently: If ollama includes a copy of llama.cpp and has a non-AUR package, why can't there be a non-AUR package that's just llama.cpp without ollama?

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.

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