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by diggan 361 days ago
Still, you need to install and run the AppImage at least once to enable the "lms" cli which can later be used. Would be nice with a completely GUI-less installation/use method too.
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t1amat 361 days ago
The UI is the product. If you just want the engine, use mlx-omni-server (for MLX) or llama-swap (for GGUF) and huggingface-cli (for model downloads).
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diggan 360 days ago
Those don't offer the same features as LM Studio itself does, even when you don't consider the UI. If there was a "LM Engine" CLI I could install, then yeah, but there isn't, hence the need to run the UI once to get "the engine".
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SparkyMcUnicorn 359 days ago
I haven't used this and maybe it doesn't solve the problem you're describing, but might be worth looking at.

https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lms

https://lmstudio.ai/docs/cli

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