Install Gaia on Windows

Here is the complete guide to installing and running your own decentralised AI inference using Gaia from a Windows machine.

Pre-requisites

• Windows Sub-system for Linux
• Ubuntu (Latest distribution)

Learn more about system requirements.

Step 1

Install WSL by opening your Command Prompt or Powershell in your windows machine and running the following command:

wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04

Following is the progress that you should notice when WSL and Ubuntu-24.04 is being installed.

Step 2

Make sure to:

• [ ] Set your Unix user account
• [ ] Set a password
• [ ] Re-enter the password for confirmation

Once WSL is installed and your choice of Ubuntu is installed, you should see the following:

Step 3

Once you see the user account logged in as shown in the above screenshot, you can follow the Gaia CLI installation steps from here.