diff --git a/installer/lib/installer.py b/installer/lib/installer.py
index f8bd72d495..cc694c2934 100644
--- a/installer/lib/installer.py
+++ b/installer/lib/installer.py
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ class InvokeAiInstance:
 
         introduction()
 
-        from invokeai.frontend.install import invokeai_configure
+        from invokeai.frontend.install.invokeai_configure import invokeai_configure
 
         # NOTE: currently the config script does its own arg parsing! this means the command-line switches
         # from the installer will also automatically propagate down to the config script.
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/merge/merge_diffusers.py b/invokeai/frontend/merge/merge_diffusers.py
index db493ec17f..f2e211a1b4 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/merge/merge_diffusers.py
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/merge/merge_diffusers.py
@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ def run_cli(args: Namespace):
 
 def main():
     args = _parse_args()
-    config.parse_args(["--root", str(args.root_dir)])
+    if args.root_dir:
+        config.parse_args(["--root", str(args.root_dir)])
 
     try:
         if args.front_end: