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Misc. bug: https://llama.app/install.sh doesn't add `~/.local/bin` to path, cannot find llama after install

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
64/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
bash, shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the install.sh script used by https://llama.app/install.sh and trace how it installs the llama command and handles the user's PATH. Reproduce the reported install on Ubuntu 24.04.3, then verify that a new shell can find and run llama after installation.

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Description

bug-unconfirmed
Name and Version

Simple enough, described in the subject. As per https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp, I run:

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh then try to run llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF, I get:

Command 'llama' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo snap install llama

~/.local/bin is not in my path.

Operating systems

Linux

Which llama.cpp modules do you know to be affected?

Other (Please specify in the next section)

Command line

Problem description & steps to reproduce

As above

First Bad Commit

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Relevant log output

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

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