https://blog.xijiang.org/tags/ai/ Recent content in AI on Breeding and genetics Hugo en-us Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:02:39 +0100 https://blog.xijiang.org/posts/local-ai-tools/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:02:39 +0100 https://blog.xijiang.org/posts/local-ai-tools/ <p>I am not an expert about nodejs. But gemini and copilot cli are written in nodejs. One annoying issue before is that they have to be installed globally which require root privileges. This post shows the step to install them locally.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>mkdir -p ~/Music/ai-tools </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>npm init -y </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>npm install @google/gemini-cli @github/copilot </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>cd ~/.local/bin </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>ln -s ~/Music/ai-tools/node_modules/.bin/gemini . </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>ln -s ~/Music/ai-tools/node_modules/.bin/copilot . </span></span></code></pre></div><p>In the same directory, create a file called <code>update-cli-tools.sh</code>.</p>