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Lemonade Server installation

Lemonade server was installed via a Debian package (.deb).

Install method: dpkg / .deb package

  • Package: lemonade-server version 10.0.0 (amd64)
  • Source .deb file: /home/ojitha/Downloads/lemonade-server_10.0.0_amd64.deb
  • Binaries installed to: /usr/bin/lemonade-server, /usr/bin/lemonade-web-app
  • Also in: /opt/bin/ (lemonade-router, lemonade-server, lemonade-web-app)
  • Config: /etc/lemonade/lemonade.conf and secrets.conf
  • Systemd service: /usr/lib/systemd/system/lemonade-server.service
  • VS Code extension: lemonade-sdk.lemonade-sdk-0.0.7 also installed

To reinstall or upgrade, you can run: sudo dpkg -i
/home/ojitha/Downloads/lemonade-server_10.0.0_amd64.deb

Install FLM models in Lemonde Server

The model location for the Lemonade server is export HF_HOME=/opt/var/lib/lemonade/.cache/huggingface'

Check what FLM itself knows

flm list

Pull via FLM directly, example gemma3:4b:

flm pull gemma3:4b

Then register it with lemonade under the user namespace

lemonade-server pull user.Gemma3-4b-it-FLM \
  --checkpoint gemma3:4b \
  --recipe flm

The --checkpoint value should match whatever flm list shows as the model identifier (likely gemma3:4b based on the upstream registry metadata).

Verify FLM is actually present:

which flm
flm --version

The default location for the FLM models are ~/.config/flm/models/.