Confirm whether Ollama is installed on this machine and whether you expected the desktop app or a background service to provide the server.

Start the server in a terminal with the ollama serve command and leave that terminal open, or launch the Ollama app if you use the desktop install.

In a second terminal, run a simple ollama list command.

Retry the original command or app action that failed.

If the server was already running but the client still fails, check whether the client runs inside a container, a virtual machine, or a different user session. Those contexts do not automatically share the host server.

If the failure returns after every reboot, set Ollama to start at login, or run it as a service using the method for your operating system.

Check for another program using the same port only if serve reports a bind or address in use error and ollama list still fails.

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