Ollama Fails to Install on Linux

[brian-at-pieces]

Software

Desktop Application

Operating System / Platform

Linux

Your Pieces OS Version

11.0.0

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• Yes, this is related to an Early Access Program feature.

Kindly describe the bug and include as much detail as possible on what you were doing so we can reproduce the bug.

User reports immediate "Ollama failed to install" diaglog upon clicking install Ollama install button in Pieces desktop app

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[brian-at-pieces]

@ekuznetsov139 I believe the issue is that one of our packages is trying to using the curl program which is not guaranteed to be installed. We'll be patching this, but if you apt install curl you should be able to complete the download

[ekuznetsov139]

I do have curl, it is a standard part of ubuntu.

I have downloaded and installed ollama manually, I can launch it from a terminal and it runs in the background, but that had no effect on Pieces, which still wants to install it and still immediately prints "Ollama failed to install" .

[ekuznetsov139]

Ok, I think I see the problem. It's not that I don't have curl. The problem is that pieces-os is installed as a snap, and it runs in its own sandboxed environment from which curl is missing. You should add curl to the list of dependency packages somewhere in the snap definition file.

For the same reason, installing ollama globally would have no effect, because pieces-os can't launch or even see any executables outside its sandbox.

[brian-at-pieces]

Yeah you're absolutely right. A little miscommunication internally about whether our package has strict or classic confinement. We're working on a patch that allows us to use ollama from a sandbox. Sorry again for the inconvenience here. We'll have a solution out ASAP