Tips for Installing LM Studio on Fedora

I will preface that I am not a Linux expert and have dabbled in Linux off and on but have recently decided to move fully to Linux on my personal computer. LMStudio (available on Windows & Mac as well) is an AI tool that allows you to utilize AI engines via this frontend and locally offline as well. After some initial issues getting LMStudio to launch on Linux I was able to follow the steps below to get it to launch.

In Terminal, run the following commands:

sudo dnf -y install clblast
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libclblast.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libclblast.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libclblast.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libclblast.so

Finally ensure the AppImage file for LMStudio has the execute permission with the following terminal command:

chmod +x LM-Studio-x64.AppImage

You should now be able to double-click the AppImage file to launch LMStudio. Alternatively you can launch it from the Terminal as well:

./LM-Studio-x64.AppImage