{"id":413,"date":"2025-02-04T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/02\/04\/10506050-how-to-install-deepseek-on-ollama\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:41:33","slug":"10506050-how-to-install-deepseek-on-ollama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10506050-how-to-install-deepseek-on-ollama\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Deepseek on Ollama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Deepseek is a powerful AI model for natural language processing tasks, and it can be efficiently deployed using Ollama. The &ldquo;Ubuntu 24.04 with Ollama&rdquo; template comes preinstalled with Ollama and OpenWebUI, providing a user-friendly interface for managing AI models. This guide walks you through the process of installing and running the Deepseek model through OpenWebUI.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you don&rsquo;t have a VPS yet, check the available options here: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps\/llm-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">LLM VPS hosting<\/a> &#128640;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><h2 id=\"h_0c2a49bfec\">Accessing Ollama<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Open your web browser and navigate to:<\/p><pre><code>https:\/\/[your-vps-ip]:8080<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">Replacing <b>[your-vps-ip]<\/b> with the <b><a href=\"\/support\/5139756-how-to-find-your-vps-ip-address\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">IP address of your VPS<\/a>.<\/b><\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_f5bd1ceefe\">Installing the Deepseek Model<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once logged into OpenWebUI, navigate to the <b>Admin Panel<\/b> section from the dashboard. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/2e25ec72-ed0a-4f46-b8ff-f51c29ffa0a6.jpg\" alt=\"OpenWebUI panel\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In the <b>Admin Panel<\/b>, select <b>Settings<\/b> and <b>Models<\/b>. Here, you will see all the models currently installed in your instance. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/6ec679dd-43d9-4a11-b99c-63c530b1e5df.jpg\" alt=\"OpenWebUI models settings\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Click on the <b>Manage Models<\/b> button at the top right corner.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/7b81e519-7741-453d-beab-6f7418dd6cf2.jpg\" alt=\"OpenWebUI manage models\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">In the opened window, enter the new model tag and press the <b>Download<\/b> button to Deepseek to begin the installation. OpenWebUI will automatically download and set up the model for use.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_707a9c9396\">Selecting the Deepseek Model<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">After installation, go to the new chat page. In the list of installed models, select Deepseek and set it as the active model by clicking the <b>Set as Default<\/b> button. This ensures that Deepseek is the model used for processing requests.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/29c8104c-a3b2-4d96-a893-dfc5c42cc292.jpg\" alt=\"OpenWebUI selecting Deepseek model\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Following these steps, you can easily install and configure the Deepseek model on your VPS using OpenWebUI without direct SSH access. This setup allows for seamless interaction with the model through a user-friendly web interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to install Deepseek model on Ollama template using OpenWebUI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10506050-how-to-install-deepseek-on-ollama\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}