Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment with machine learning. All the apps covered in the series can be self-hosted.
Many Linux distributions make installing apps reasonably straightforward. A good package manager makes installation of many Linux programs simple with the package manager handling a program’s dependencies. But distros’ package managers rarely include any AI apps. Installing AI apps in Linux is often a non-trivial experience. For each program in our Machine Learning series I usually devote a section with instructions how to install the AI app. There is another option which was suggested to me by ismail, a visitor to our site. The app is called Pinokio.
Pinokio describes itself as a browser that lets you install, run, and manage any server application, on your local machine. These applications are AI software. Pinokio is not a browser in the traditional sense. It’s free and open source software.
Installation
I evaluated Pinokio with the Ubuntu distribution.
The project provides packages for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora. There’s also a cross-platform AppImage available. As I’m running with Ubuntu, I downloaded the deb package from the project’s GitHub page and installed it with the command:
$ sudo dpkg -i Pinokio_3.6.23_amd64.deb
Installation proceeded smoothly.
Eagle-eyed readers will notice my system had a very old version of Pinokio installed. So I must have tried the software in the past.
This is cross-platform software. Besides Linux, it runs under macOS and Windows.
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