# DeepSeek deployment

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This document demonstrates how to deploy **DeepSeek** locally on the **Quectel Pi H1** smart single-board computer.

**DeepSeek** is a high-performance open-source large language model developed by a Chinese team. It features powerful natural language understanding, code generation, and logical reasoning capabilities. It can efficiently run in a local environment and is suitable for a variety of scenarios such as intelligent Q&A, text generation, and code assistance.

# **Prerequisites**

1.The **Quectel Pi H1** Debian system has been successfully flashed and booted.

2.The system can access the Internet normally.

# Update software sources

Run the following commands in the terminal:

```plaintext
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
```

> Before installing any software, it is recommended to update the system software packages to ensure that all dependencies are up to date.

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# Install basic tools

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sudo apt install curl
```

> `curl` is a commonly used command-line download tool, which will be used later during the Ollama installation.
> If the system indicates that `curl` is already installed, you can skip this step.

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# Install Ollama

Ollama is a lightweight model runtime environment that allows you to deploy and run various open-source models locally.

Run the following command in the terminal:

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

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# Start Ollama service

Ollama needs to run a background server process to manage models.

Open a terminal and execute the command:

```plaintext
ollama serve
```

> Please keep this terminal window open.

# Run DeepSeek model

Open **another terminal window** and run the following command to pull and start the **DeepSeek-R1 1.5B** model:

```plaintext
ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b
```

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You can enter a text for a conversation in the highlighted area, for example:

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