Not sure you really need huggingface-cli to download anything if you're just using llama.cpp. You can pass `-hf ...` and it will download the models for you. Set `LLAMA_CACHE` to change where the downloads go:

  LLAMA_CACHE="models" ./llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    ...

▲ dofm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes.

-hfd for the draft model.

▲ c-hendricks 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Nice, was wondering if there was a flag for the draft as well.

Not knocking huggingface-cli, just find it's much easier for people to try out this stuff when they can just

  mise use --global github:ggml-org/llama.cpp
  LLAMA_CACHE="models" llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 11434 \
    ...

	▲	dofm 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		`—no-mmproj` is also pretty useful if you're doing this just to try agentic coding and you're not processing images. Stops it downloading the multimodal projector.