--- title: Manual Installation --- # :fontawesome-brands-linux: Linux # :fontawesome-brands-apple: macOS # :fontawesome-brands-windows: Windows ## Introduction You have two choices for manual installation, the [first one](#Conda_method) based on the Anaconda3 package manager (`conda`), and [a second one](#PIP_method) which uses basic Python virtual environment (`venv`) commands and the PIP package manager. Both methods require you to enter commands on the command-line shell, also known as the "console". On Windows systems you are encouraged to install and use the [Powershell](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows?view=powershell-7.3), which provides compatibility with Linux and Mac shells and nice features such as command-line completion. ### Conda method 1. Check that your system meets the [hardware requirements](index.md#Hardware_Requirements) and has the appropriate GPU drivers installed. In particular, if you are a Linux user with an AMD GPU installed, you may need to install the [ROCm driver](https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html). InvokeAI does not yet support Windows machines with AMD GPUs due to the lack of ROCm driver support on this platform. To confirm that the appropriate drivers are installed, run `nvidia-smi` on NVIDIA/CUDA systems, and `rocm-smi` on AMD systems. These should return information about the installed video card. Macintosh users with MPS acceleration, or anybody with a CPU-only system, can skip this step. 2. You will need to install Anaconda3 and Git if they are not already available. Use your operating system's preferred installer, or download installers from the following URLs - Anaconda3 (https://www.anaconda.com/) - git (https://git-scm.com/downloads) 3. Copy the InvokeAI source code from GitHub using `git`: ```bash git clone https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI.git ``` This will create InvokeAI folder where you will follow the rest of the steps. 3. Enter the newly-created InvokeAI folder. From this step forward make sure that you are working in the InvokeAI directory! ```bash cd InvokeAI ``` 4. Select the appropriate environment file: We have created a series of environment files suited for different operating systems and GPU hardware. They are located in the `environments-and-requirements` directory: ```bash environment-lin-amd.yml # Linux with an AMD (ROCm) GPU environment-lin-cuda.yml # Linux with an NVIDIA CUDA GPU environment-mac.yml # Macintoshes with MPS acceleration environment-win-cuda.yml # Windows with an NVIDA CUDA GPU ``` Select the appropriate environment file, and make a link to it from `environment.yml` in the top-level InvokeAI directory. The command to do this from the top-level directory is: !!! todo "Macintosh and Linux" ```bash ln -sf environments-and-requirements/environment-xxx-yyy.yml environment.yml ``` Replace `xxx` and `yyy` with the appropriate OS and GPU codes. !!! todo "Windows requires admin privileges to make links, so we use the copy (cp) command" ```bash cp environments-and-requirements\environment-win-cuda.yml environment.yml ``` When this is done, confirm that a file `environment.yml` has been created in the InvokeAI root directory and that it points to the correct file in the `environments-and-requirements`. 4. Run conda: ```bash conda env update ``` This will create a new environment named `invokeai` and install all InvokeAI dependencies into it. If something goes wrong at this point, see [troubleshooting](#Troubleshooting). 5. Activate the `invokeai` environment: ```bash conda activate invokeai ``` Your command-line prompt should change to indicate that `invokeai` is active. 6. Load the model weights files: ```bash python scripts/preload_models.py ``` (Windows users should use the backslash instead of the slash) The script `preload_models.py` will interactively guide you through downloading and installing the weights files needed for InvokeAI. Note that the main Stable Diffusion weights file is protected by a license agreement that you have to agree to. The script will list the steps you need to take to create an account on the site that hosts the weights files, accept the agreement, and provide an access token that allows InvokeAI to legally download and install the weights files. If you have already downloaded the weights file(s) for another Stable Diffusion distribution, you may skip this step (by selecting "skip" when prompted) and configure InvokeAI to use the previously-downloaded files. The process for this is described in [INSTALLING_MODELS.md]. If you get an error message about a module not being installed, check that the `invokeai` environment is active and if not, repeat step 5. 7. Run the command-line interface or the web interface: ```bash python scripts/invoke.py # command line python scripts/invoke.py --web # web interface ``` (Windows users replace backslash with forward slash) If you choose the run the web interface, point your browser at http://localhost:9090 in order to load the GUI. 8. Render away! Browse the features listed in the [Stable Diffusion Toolkit Docs](https://invoke-ai.git) to learn about all the things you can do with InvokeAI. Note that some GPUs are slow to warm up. In particular, when using an AMD card with the ROCm driver, you may have to wait for over a minute the first time you try to generate an image. Fortunately, after the warm up period rendering will be fast. 9. Subsequently, to relaunch the script, be sure to run "conda activate invokeai", enter the `InvokeAI` directory, and then launch the invoke script. If you forget to activate the 'invokeai' environment, the script will fail with multiple `ModuleNotFound` errors. ## Updating to newer versions of the script This distribution is changing rapidly. If you used the `git clone` method (step 5) to download the InvokeAI directory, then to update to the latest and greatest version, launch the Anaconda window, enter `InvokeAI` and type: ```bash git pull conda env update python scripts/preload_models.py --no-interactive #optional ``` This will bring your local copy into sync with the remote one. The last step may be needed to take advantage of new features or released models. The `--no-interactive` flag will prevent the script from prompting you to download the big Stable Diffusion weights files. ## pip Install To install InvokeAI with only the PIP package manager, please follow these steps: 1. Make sure you are using Python 3.9 or higher. The rest of the install procedure depends on this: ```bash python -V ``` 2. Install the `virtualenv` tool if you don't have it already: ```bash pip install virtualenv ``` 3. From within the InvokeAI top-level directory, create and activate a virtual environment named `invokeai`: ```bash virtualenv invokeai source invokeai/bin/activate ``` 4. Pick the correct `requirements*.txt` file for your hardware and operating system. We have created a series of environment files suited for different operating systems and GPU hardware. They are located in the `environments-and-requirements` directory: ```bash requirements-lin-amd.txt # Linux with an AMD (ROCm) GPU requirements-lin-arm64.txt # Linux running on arm64 systems requirements-lin-cuda.txt # Linux with an NVIDIA (CUDA) GPU requirements-mac-mps-cpu.txt # Macintoshes with MPS acceleration requirements-lin-win-colab-cuda.txt # Windows with an NVIDA (CUDA) GPU # (supports Google Colab too) ``` Select the appropriate requirements file, and make a link to it from `environment.txt` in the top-level InvokeAI directory. The command to do this from the top-level directory is: !!! todo "Macintosh and Linux" ```bash ln -sf environments-and-requirements/requirements-xxx-yyy.txt requirements.txt ``` Replace `xxx` and `yyy` with the appropriate OS and GPU codes. !!! todo "Windows requires admin privileges to make links, so we use the copy (cp) command instead" ```bash cp environments-and-requirements\requirements-lin-win-colab-cuda.txt requirements.txt ``` Note that the order of arguments is reversed between the Linux/Mac and Windows commands! Please do not link directly to the file `environments-and-requirements/requirements.txt`. This is a base requirements file that does not have the platform-specific libraries. When this is done, confirm that a file `requirements.txt` has been created in the InvokeAI root directory and that it points to the correct file in the `environments-and-requirements`. 5. Run PIP Be sure that the `invokeai` environment is active before doing this: ```bash pip install --prefer-binary -r requirements.txt ``` ## Troubleshooting Here are some common issues and their suggested solutions. ### Conda install 1. Conda fails before completing `conda update`: The usual source of these errors is a package incompatibility. While we have tried to minimize these, over time packages get updated and sometimes introduce incompatibilities. We suggest that you search [Issues](https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/issues) or the "bugs-and-support" channel of the [InvokeAI Discord](https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy). You may also try to install the broken packages manually using PIP. To do this, activate the `invokeai` environment, and run `pip install` with the name and version of the package that is causing the incompatibility. For example: ```bash pip install test-tube==0.7.5 ``` You can keep doing this until all requirements are satisfied and the `invoke.py` script runs without errors. Please report to [Issues](https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/issues) what you were able to do to work around the problem so that others can benefit from your investigation. 2. `preload_models.py` or `invoke.py` crashes at an early stage This is usually due to an incomplete or corrupted Conda install. Make sure you have linked to the correct environment file and run `conda update` again. If the problem persists, a more extreme measure is to clear Conda's caches and remove the `invokeai` environment: ```bash conda deactivate conda env remove -n invokeai conda clean -a conda update ``` This removes all cached library files, including ones that may have been corrupted somehow. (This is not supposed to happen, but does anyway). 3. `invoke.py` crashes at a later stage. If the CLI or web site had been working ok, but something unexpected happens later on during the session, you've encountered a code bug that is probably unrelated to an install issue. Please search [Issues](https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/issues), file a bug report, or ask for help on [Discord](https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy) 4. My renders are running very slowly! You may have installed the wrong torch (machine learning) package, and the system is running on CPU rather than the GPU. To check, look at the log messages that appear when `invoke.py` is first starting up. One of the earlier lines should say `Using device type cuda`. On AMD systems, it will also say "cuda", and on Macintoshes, it should say "mps". If instead the message says it is running on "cpu", then you may need to install the correct torch library. You may be able to fix this by installing a different torch library. Here are the magic incantations for Conda and PIP. !!! todo "For CUDA systems" (conda) ```bash conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=11.6 -c pytorch -c nvidia ``` (pip) ```bash pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116 ``` !!! todo "For AMD systems" (conda) ```bash conda activate invokeai pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm5.2/ ``` (pip) ```bash pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm5.2/ ``` More information and troubleshooting tips can be found at https://pytorch.org.