Run deepseek-r1 on WSL

 [OS] windows 10

Make sure you install WSL 2. if not, follow this official guidance.

Installing ollama:

$curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

After installation, if you run:

$ollama run deepseek-r1:8b 

A error saying "Error: could not connect to ollama app, is it running?" will pop out. Please follow this solution:

$ollama serve

don't close it, open another WSL shell to run deepseek-r1:

$ollama run deepseek-r1:8b