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Getting Started

JHubi1 edited this page Sep 14, 2024 · 4 revisions

This page will guide you through initial setup for Ollama App. Following these steps is highly recommended. You haven't installed Ollama App yet? Follow there steps.

Initial Setup

After installing the app and opening it for the first time, you'll encounter this popup:

welcome instructions

Go through the welcome dialog one by one, you should read the page's content, but you don't have to.

Setting up the host

Warning

Before continuing to the next steps, you may have to follow a few extra steps to make your Ollama instance accessible from outside of your local device. Visit issue #5 to learn more.

initial notification open sidebar set host input

After going through that, you'll get a small snack bar notifying you that you have to set the host. For that, open the sidebar (swipe from the left to right or click the icon in the top left corner) and click on settings. There you'll find all app-related settings, you should go through them, but for the initial setup, only the first one is important.

In the big host text field, you have to enter the base URL of your instance. The port is required unless the port number matches the protocol (443 for HTTPS or 80 for HTTP). After that, click the save icon right next to the text field.

To learn more about the host setting, visit Settings. You encountered any difficulties? Open a new issue

Next Steps

You have successfully set up Ollama App. Now you can just chat. You can enter a message and press the send icon that appears. If you still want to learn more, you could visit the Component Documentation and get to know with every component in detail.