---
title: "Running Ollama Locally with Podman on Fedora Linux"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-ollama-locally-with-podman-on-fedora-linux-ivololosu
source_url: https://fedoramagazine.org/running-ollama-locally-with-podman-on-fedora-linux
type: article
source: "Fedora Magazine"
published: 2026-08-05T08:02:41.494Z
updated: 2026-08-05T08:03:32.174Z
tags: ["llm", "containers", "fedora", "ollama"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Running Ollama Locally with Podman on Fedora Linux

**[Fedora Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/fedoramag)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to running Ollama LLMs locally on Fedora Linux using Podman containers. Covers creating a persistent volume for model storage, launching the Ollama container, pulling and running Llama 3, interacting with the built-in REST API, and basic container management commands. Also touches on optional Nvidia GPU passthrough for hardware acceleration.

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## Community discussion

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**@yaroslavgursky** · 0 upvotes

> use AMD?

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Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#containers](https://daily.dev/tags/containers), [#fedora](https://daily.dev/tags/fedora), [#ollama](https://daily.dev/tags/ollama)

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