Setup Issue - Ollama not installed

[jerryjdavis1972]

Describe the problem:
not able to setup codespace. tried several times, seeing error when executing "scripts/validate_setup.sh": Ollama not installed.

I tried running the command manually

(py_env) @jerryjdavis1972 ➜ /workspaces/codespaces-check (main) $ bash -i scripts/pysetup.sh py_env && bash -i scripts/startOllama.sh
Requirement already satisfied: Flask>=2.0.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from -r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (3.1.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pytest>=7.0.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from -r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 2)) (9.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: tiktoken in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from -r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (0.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied: blinker>=1.9.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (1.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click>=8.1.3 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (8.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: itsdangerous>=2.2.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (2.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: jinja2>=3.1.2 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (3.1.6)
Requirement already satisfied: markupsafe>=2.1.1 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (3.0.3)
Requirement already satisfied: werkzeug>=3.1.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Flask>=2.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 1)) (3.1.7)
Requirement already satisfied: iniconfig>=1.0.1 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from pytest>=7.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 2)) (2.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=22 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from pytest>=7.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 2)) (26.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pluggy<2,>=1.5 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from pytest>=7.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 2)) (1.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pygments>=2.7.2 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from pytest>=7.0.0->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 2)) (2.19.2)
Requirement already satisfied: regex>=2022.1.18 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (2026.2.28)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.26.0 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (2.33.0)
Requirement already satisfied: charset_normalizer<4,>=2 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.26.0->tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (3.4.6)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.26.0->tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (3.11)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.26 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.26.0->tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (2.6.3)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2023.5.7 in ./py_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from requests>=2.26.0->tiktoken->-r /workspaces/codespaces-check/requirements/requirements.txt (line 3)) (2026.2.25)

Cleaning up old version at /usr/local/lib/ollama
Installing ollama to /usr/local
ERROR: This version requires zstd for extraction. Please install zstd and try again:

• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install zstd
• RHEL/CentOS/Fedora: sudo dnf install zstd
• Arch: sudo pacman -S zstd
  bash: ollama: command not found

OS & Environment:
codespace

Browser:
Microsoft Edge Version 146.0.3856.72 (Official build) (64-bit)

[jerryjdavis1972]

i fixed this manully by running:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install zstd
scripts/startOllama.sh
ollama serve &

[brentlaster]

My apologies Jerry - this was a problem with a change in how Ollama itself was meant to be installed.

[brentlaster]

Should be fixed now.