Install LM Studio in Ubuntu 22.04 - lahoramaker/awesome-lmstudio GitHub Wiki

Instructions for Installing LM Studio on Ubuntu 22.04

1 .Downloading LM Studio:

  • Access the Linux (beta version) channel in LM Studio's Discord. The specific link cannot be shared directly, but it is available on the mentioned channel in the pinned messages. (It's a large pin icon on the top right corner of the channel window)
  1. Installation of LM Studio:
  • Open the terminal and navigate to the downloads folder.
  • Run chmod a+x [name of the LM Studio file] to make the downloaded file executable. In the current version, the command would be chmod a+x LM+Studio-0.2.8-beta-v1.AppImage
  • Execute the LM Studio file, executing ./LM+Studio-0.2.8-beta-v1.AppImage

If you get an error about Fuse not installed, you can install it with sudo apt install libfuse2.

  1. Getting your first model loaded
  • Within LM Studio, select the magnifier glass icon on the left panel. Select and download one of the recommended models in GGUF format. One good starter model would be TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF in Q4_K_M format.
  • Once a model is downloaded, select it from the dropdown in the LM Studio chat window.

By default, LM Studio uses the CPU. To activate GPU support, adjust the hardware settings and reload the model. This should improve the performance of the model.