Set up a Local AI like ChatGPT on your own machine!

Install on Linux

$ sudo apt install python3.11-venv

$ python3.11 -m venv myenv

$ source myenv/bin/activate

$ pip install open-webui

$ pip install async_timeout

$ sudo docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

$ ollama pull llama3.1:latest

$ open-webui serve

http://localhost:8080

Run on Linux, (after the above has been closed):

$ cd ~/myenv

$ source myenv/bin/activate

$ open-webui serve

http://localhost:8080

Allow other on your network to use this:

http://your-ip:8080

Script that can be run each time you want to start the Web UI:

#!/bin/sh

# Navigate to the home directory, or the directory where your virtual environment is
cd ~/myenv || exit # If this fails, exit the script

# Activate the virtual environment
if [ -f "bin/activate" ]; then
. bin/activate # Use '.' (dot) instead of 'source' in sh
else
echo "Virtual environment not found. Exiting."
exit 1
fi

# Run open-webui
open-webui serve

# Notify user the server is up
echo "Activated, open at http://localhost:8080"

Save as a sh file and run with $ sh file.sh command.

More Information:

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

https://ollama.com/

• This topic was modified 1 month, 4 weeks ago by thumbtak. Reason: Removed sudo from the pip commands as "Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager."
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