WSL2 + ollama + deepseek + open-webui

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/systemd#how-to-enable-systemd
https://ollama.com/download/linux
https://docs.openwebui.com/
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

1 - sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

2 - Add values
[boot]
systemd=true

3 - Ctrl + X, select Y to save your change

4 - Use the command wsl.exe --shutdown in PowerShell to restart all WSL instances

5 - curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

6 - Try to run "ollama" from the command line

** if not starts with systemd
ollama serve 
http://127.0.0.1:11434/
**

Add deepseek

7 - ollama pull deepseek-r1

8 - ollama list // or http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/tags

Add open-webui

9 - docker run -d --network=host -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434 --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

10 - http://localhost:8080

11 - http://localhost:8080/admin/settings -> Ollama API connection should be: http://127.0.0.1:11434