How to Install OpenClaw Locally: Free AI Setup (Docker & Ollama)

What if you could have your own private version of Open Claw running directly on your computer? No manly subscriptions, no data tracking, and completely free. Welcome back. In today's tutorial, I'm going to walk you through exactly how to set this up using Open Claw, Docker, and OMA. Even if you are a complete beginner, I promise you this will be very easy to follow. Here's the road map for today. First, we're going to get the requirements out of the way by installing Docker and OMA. Second, we'll pull a free AI model for a local machine. And third, we're going to connect all together using open claw and test it with a simple message. Let's start. So, first thing we're going to do, we're going to install all lema. So, for this, go to all.com/d download and we're going to have here a command that we just need to copy and paste it on the terminal. So, I'm going to copy it. Going to go to my terminal and I'm going to paste it. In my case, since I already have it installed, is removing it and installing it again. Once the installation is complete, let's validate the installation done correctly. So, we can just check for the version. So, we have it installed. Next step, we're going to pull a local model. So, for this, you're going to type pool and then you select the model that you want. In this case, I pulled the model I already had. So, it didn't took long. But for you, depending on the size and the speed of your internet, it can take a bit. So, let's say if the model is installed locally. So, we do a list and we see the list of models that we have. And as we can see, we have it here GPT OSS 20B. Next step, we're going to install Docker. For this, go to docker.com. here on download docker desktop select the download for Mac AP silicon or download for Mac if you have a old version an Intel one after the docker is installed and you open it it should have something like this you just open docker desktop and you should have an application like this it's important that you open it so you can just go insert on our applications and double