Installing Ollama on Mac Mini

Installing Claude Code

Playing with Ollama on a Mac Mini, only have command line access, let's see how this goes:

mkdir Ollama
cd ~/Ollama
curl -fsSLO https://ollama.com/install.sh
sh install.sh
# Password required
# Error: "The application /Applications/Ollama.app cannot be opened for an unexpected reason"

# Trying...
/Applications/Ollama.app/Contents/MacOS/Ollama
# Works. Seeing output on screen. Not returned to prompt (maybe
# background in future)

In separate terminal:

ollama

Gives the ollama prompt

Installing Claude Code

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
# Recommended (and ran):
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

ollama launch claude

# Run qwen by itself
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b

# Or as backend for claude
ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=ollama \
    ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434 \
    ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="" \
    claude --model qwen2.5-coder:7b

Installing Ollama on Mac Mini

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