Prerequisites Before diving in, ensure the following: Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 or a similar Linux distribution. (Debian/Debian-based will make your life easier) Hardware: Modern CPU with at least 16 GB of RAM; a dedicated GPU. (NVIDIA GPUs are already well tested) Software: Python 3.8 or later, and Git installed on your system. (Probably already installed, check first) Free disk space: At least 10 GB of for smaller models; larger models like 671b require significantly more!! curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh ollama --version systemctl is-active ollama.service sudo systemctl start ollama.service To always start the service when your system boots run: sudo systemctl enable ollama.service To download and run the 7b model, use the command: ollama run deepseek-r1:7b To download and run the 1.5b model, use the command: ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b The download size for these models varies: 1.5b: ~2.3GB 7b: ~4.7GB 70b: ~40GB+ #deepseek #linux #LLMs #largelanguagemodel #chatgpt #chatgptvsdeepseek