【SD Tutorials】How to install Stable Diffusion on Mac

Systems requirements

You need a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or M2) for reasonable speed. Ideally, your machine will have 16 GB of memory or more.

Install steps

Step 1: Install Homebrew, if you haven’t already，open the Terminal app, type the following command, and press return.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step 2: Install a few required packages. Open a new terminal and run the following command

brew install cmake protobuf rust python@3.10 git wget

Step 3: Clone the Stable Diffusion repository by running the following command in the terminal

git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

A new folder stable-diffusion-webui should be created under your home directory. Step 5: You will need a model to run Stable Diffusion. Use the following link to download the v1.5 model.(🔗缺少文件） Put the file in the folder stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion. You can get there in the Finder app. In the top menu, click Go and then Home. Double Click to go to the folder stable-diffusion-webui, and then models, and then Stable-diffusion.

Run on Mac In the terminal, run the following command.

cd ~/stable-diffusion-webui;./webui.sh

Open a web browser and click the following URL http://127.0.0.1:7860/ to start Stable Diffusion.🥳

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