[jmorgan]

This is a great point. apt-get would definitely be a better install experience and upgrade experience (that's what I would want too). Tailscale does this amazing well: https://tailscale.com/download/linux

The main issue for the maintainer team would be the work in hosting and maintaining all the package repos for apt, yum, etc, and making sure the we handle the case where nvidia/amd drivers aren't installed (quite common on cloud VMs). Mostly a matter of time and putting in the work.

For now every release of Ollama includes a minimal archive with the ollama binary and required dynamic libraries: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md#man.... But we could definitely do better