Package Details: lemonade-server 10.6.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/lemonade-server.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: lemonade-server
Description: Lemonade: Local LLM Serving with GPU and NPU acceleration (Server)
Upstream URL: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/
Licenses: Apache-2.0
Provides: lemonade-server
Submitter: luciddream
Maintainer: luciddream (bitgamma)
Last Packager: luciddream
Votes: 11
Popularity: 4.29
First Submitted: 2025-11-15 12:59 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-21 20:48 (UTC)

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luciddream commented on 2025-12-16 20:53 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-08 17:33 (UTC) by luciddream)

lemonade-server has a systemd service unit. Use systemctl start lemond to start.

Default configuration is available at /usr/share/lemonade/defaults.json and should be placed at: /var/lib/lemonade/.cache/lemonade/config.json

Also /etc/lemonade/conf.d/zz-secrets.conf for the Lemonade API KEY.

The cache where all models, backends, and other files are stored is now in /var/lib/lemonade/.cache

GUI: lemonade-desktop.

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HabiRabbit commented on 2026-02-24 15:38 (UTC)

If you’re like me and have a small / but a much larger /home, you can move the Lemonade cache to /home and bind-mount it back to /var/lib/lemonade/.cache via /etc/fstab to keep your root partition from filling up.

luciddream commented on 2026-02-20 09:08 (UTC)

@Pofes, aah yes, I think it's because it needs to have path traversal enabled to work! A better alternative IMO is to use /opt/ai-models or something which already has it enabled, and this way you don't have to change the ProtectHome in the systemd unit.

Pofes commented on 2026-02-20 08:40 (UTC)

@luciddream, thanks it works!)

I added chmod o+x for my home dir, and ProtectHome=no is also needed

luciddream commented on 2026-02-20 07:19 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-20 07:20 (UTC) by luciddream)

Hi @Pofes, the systemd service uses the hardened features (to be aligned with lemonade upstream).

With that in mind, I believe you need to change some things in lemonade.conf and systemd unit.

1) set the LEMONADE_EXTRA_MODELS_DIR in lemonade.conf

2) set the ReadOnlyPaths=/home/user/model-directory in systemd unit

3) Probably have to also set ProtectHome=no in the systemd unit. I'm not sure about that and I can't test it at the moment.

To override the systemd unit you can run sudo systemctl edit lemonade-server

Pofes commented on 2026-02-19 23:52 (UTC)

@luciddream, hi, is there any easy/canonical way to use LEMONADE_EXTRA_MODELS_DIR=/home/user/... from systemd service?

current systemd process settings prevent using ~/.lmstudio/models, ~/.cache/huggingface/hub, etc (service doesn't start)

luciddream commented on 2026-02-06 00:03 (UTC)

With lemonade 9.3.0 there is also a web-app available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/app !

luciddream commented on 2026-01-28 21:05 (UTC)

I've added a systemd service unit. It's my first time doing this so fingers crossed it's working for more people other than myself ! please report if there are issues. More instructions are available in the pinned comment.

luciddream commented on 2026-01-22 07:00 (UTC)

hi @no4b. No it will be running on its system user (lemonade). The problem is that you can either have a cache directory for the normal user or for the system user.

I assume this is normal but I want to verify it tonight before making the release, I'm not at all experienced with systemd units. With lemonade-server it gets even trickier because it downloads many gigabytes of files in its cache directories.

I also wanted to try and make a socket unit so it starts when lemonade-desktop starts, so the service doesn't need to be running all the time. But I'm still investigating it.

no4b commented on 2026-01-21 22:15 (UTC)

@luciddream: thank you for your work on this. As for the systemd support it is a great idea, I just hope it won't run as root as there is no reason to run lemonade-server as root.

luciddream commented on 2026-01-21 20:11 (UTC)

I'm preparing a third update of this package, for systemd support. I just have some difficulties that I will try to resolve tomorrow.

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