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Summary

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How install and startup work

You do not need Rust or a local source checkout. The server runs from the published Docker image.

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Python

Version: Python 3.10 or newer

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Docker

Verify Docker is running:
On first moorcheh-edge up, Docker pulls moorcheh/moorcheh-edge:latest from Docker Hub and downloads BGE-small-en-v1.5 (~67 MB, one-time) to ~/.moorcheh-edge/models.

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Ollama (answer / RAG)

Required only for moorcheh-edge answer, not for search or upload. On Linux, moorcheh-edge up --with-llm installs Ollama (into ~/.moorcheh-edge/ollama/) and pulls qwen2.5:0.5b-instruct (~400 MB). Use --skip-ollama on up if you only need vector search.

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Ports

If port 8080 is in use:

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