---
title: Install Lemonade Server on Kubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Lemonade Server for on Kubuntu - Local AI server
  with OpenAI-compatible API
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/lemonade-server/kubuntu
---

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# Install Lemonade Server on **Kubuntu**

# Lemonade Server

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/lemonade-server/kubuntu#install)

#### Local AI server with OpenAI-compatible API

Lemonade is a local AI server that provides cloud-API-equivalent capabilities
(chat, coding, speech, image generation) running 100% locally on your own
hardware. It exposes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama-compatible APIs on
localhost:13305, connectable to hundreds of apps.

**Features:**

* OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama-compatible APIs (chat completions, embeddings, etc.)
* Multi-modal inference: LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio generation,
  image generation, and 3D generation
* Automatic backend selection based on available hardware — CUDA, ROCm, Vulkan,
  NPU, and CPU backends download on demand
* 77+ built-in models (GGUF, FLM, ONNX) with `lemonade-server pull` / `lemonade-server list`
  for model management
* Cloud offload: route inference to OpenAI-compatible providers alongside
  local models
* MCP (Model Context Protocol) client and server support
* Built-in Prometheus metrics endpoint
* Runs as a background service with auto-restart on failure

**Supported Hardware:**

* AMD GPUs: RDNA2/3/4 (RX 6000/7000/9000), Strix Point/Halo APUs, Instinct MI100/MI200/MI300X/MI350X via ROCm
* AMD XDNA2 NPUs (Ryzen AI) for LLM and speech inference
* NVIDIA GPUs: Turing (sm\_75) and newer via CUDA (Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Hopper, Blackwell)
* Cross-vendor GPUs via Vulkan (AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm Adreno on ARM64)
* CPU fallback for systems without GPU acceleration
* Both amd64 (x86\_64) and arm64 (aarch64) architectures

**Quick Start:**
The server starts automatically after installation. Access the API at:
<http://localhost:13305/api/v1>

**Documentation:** <https://lemonade-server.ai/>

### Package name

* lemonade-server

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* 3 September 2026 - latest/stable
* Today - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [lemonade-server.ai](https://lemonade-server.ai "https://lemonade-server.ai")

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### Contact

* [github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues](https://github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues "https://github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade](https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade "https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues](https://github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues "https://github.com/kenvandine/lemonade-server-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/lemonade-server/kubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install Lemonade Server

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

### Install Lemonade Server

To install Lemonade Server, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install lemonade-server
```

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