Setting Up Your Computing Environment for Using Ollama and Using Book Example Programs

There is a GitHub repository that I have prepared for you, dear reader, to both support working through the examples for this book as well as hopefully provide utilities for your own projects.

You need to git clone the following repository:

https://github.com/mark-watson/Ollama_in_Action_Book that contains tools I have written in Python that you can use with Ollama as well as utilities I wrote to avoid repeated code in the book examples. There are also application level example files that have the string “example” in the file names. Tool library files begin with “tool” and files starting with “Agent” contain one of several approaches to writing Agents.

Starting October 2025 I exclusively use uv to manage dependencies and run the example programs. Change directory to and source code sub-directory and use uv to run an example; for example:

1 cd judges
2 uv run example_judge.py

There are many other good options like Anaconda, miniconda, poetry, etc.