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Harish Kotra (he/him) for Gaia

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Run your own Local AI on your windows machine

Install Gaia on Windows

Here is the complete guide to installing and running your own decentralised AI inference using Gaia from a Windows machine.

Pre-requisites

  • Windows Sub-system for Linux
  • Ubuntu (Latest distribution)

Learn more about system requirements.

Step 1

Install WSL by opening your Command Prompt or Powershell in your windows machine and running the following command:

wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04
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Following is the progress that you should notice when WSL and Ubuntu-24.04 is being installed.

installing wsl step 1

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installing wsl step 3

installing wsl step 4

Step 2

Make sure to:

  • [ ] Set your Unix user account
  • [ ] Set a password
  • [ ] Re-enter the password for confirmation

Once WSL is installed and your choice of Ubuntu is installed, you should see the following:

last step post installation

Step 3

Once you see the user account logged in as shown in the above screenshot, you can follow the Gaia CLI installation steps from here.

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