Installation

Note

oterm works with multiple LLM providers — local and hosted. For local models, point it at Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, or any OpenAI-compatible runner. For hosted providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, …), set the relevant API key. See Providers and API keys and the openaiCompatible config block.

Using uvx:

uvx oterm

Using brew for MacOS:

brew install oterm

Note

Since version 0.13.1, oterm is in the official homebrew/core repository. If you have installed oterm by tapping ggozad/formulas you can now remove the tap and reinstall oterm.

Using yay (or any AUR helper) for Arch Linux, thanks goes to Daniel Chesters for maintaining the package:

yay -S oterm

Using nix-env on NixOs, thanks goes to Gaël James for maintaining the package:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.oterm

Using pip:

pip install oterm

Using pkg for FreeBSD, thanks goes to Nicola Vitale for maintaining the package:

pkg install misc/py-oterm

Using x-cmd:

x install oterm

Updating oterm

To update oterm to the latest version, you can use the same method you used for installation:

Using uvx:

uvx oterm@latest

Using brew for MacOS:

brew upgrade oterm

Using 'yay' (or any AUR helper) for Arch Linux:

yay -Syu oterm

Using pip:

pip install --upgrade oterm

Using pkg for FreeBSD:

pkg upgrade misc/py-oterm