The llm package uses a plugin architecture to support numerous different language model API providers and frameworks.
Per the documentation, these plugins are installed using a version of pip, the popular Python package manager
Use the llm install command (a thin wrapper around pip install) to install plugins in the correct environment:
llm install llm-gpt4all
Because this approach makes use of pip occasionally we run into familiar issues like pip being out of date and complaining about it on every use
❯ llm install llm-ollama
Collecting llm-ollama
...
Successfully installed llm-ollama-0.8.2 ollama-0.4.7
[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.3.1 -> 25.0
[notice] To update, run: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/llm/0.19.1/libexec/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
The instance of pip that needs to be updated here is the pip being used within llm.
I couldn’t find explicit instructions on how to address this issue upon some cursory searches, but the solution is pretty intuitive - props to Simon for a nice API design.
To update pip within llm, run
llm install --upgrade pip
The upgrade notice should disappear if all goes well.