Ollama Installation and Configuration - macOS Systems

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In this section, learn how to complete the macOS Ollama The installation and configuration is divided into three main parts.

• Visit the official website to complete the download directly
• Run Ollama
• Installing Enchanted

I. Visit the official website to complete the download directly

1. Visit the official homepage

   Ollama Download: https://ollama.com/download

   Ollama official home page: https://ollama.com

   Ollama official GitHub source code repository: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/

   

2. Wait for your browser to download the file Ollama-darwin.zip, once completed double click on the file to unzip it, double click on the unzipped file and the following pop-up window will appear.
   
   strike (on the keyboard)打开The following pop-up window will appear, we clickMove to ApplicationsReady to go.
   
3. Once the installation is complete, you can see the Ollama icon in the status bar in the upper right corner, click on the Quit Ollama It is possible to exit Ollama.
   

II. Running Ollama

• Terminal command startup

ollama run qwen2:0.5b

For the first time, you need to download the corresponding model file, so we choose to download the 0.5b version of Thousand Questions 2 to save time. You can click Models in the upper right corner of the official website to get the models supported by Ollama.

You can talk to the model in the terminal after loading is complete./byeEnd the conversation.

Installation of Enchanted

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Enchanted is an open source, Ollama-compatible, elegant macOS/iOS/visionOS app that is a private model that connects to ChatGPT The application UI can be downloaded from Enchanted by clicking on the App Store.

We can connect to Ollama by opening Enchanted directly after running Ollama.