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Install Stable Diffusion on Mac

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This section shows you how to install and run AUTOMATIC1111 on Mac step-by-step.

Please make sure your system meets the following requirements:

  • Mac OS 12.5.1 or above.
  • Apple Silicon Mac model.
  • 16 GB or minimum 8 GB of RAM.
  • Mac with M1 or M2 chip (recommended), or Intel-based Mac (performance may be slower).

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Step 1: Install Homebrew​

Install Homebrew, a package manager for Mac, 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​

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 webui repository​

Clone the AUTOMATIC1111 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 4: download model​

You will need a model to run Stable Diffusion. Use the following link to download the v1.5 model.

Download link

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.

When you are done with this step, the Stable-diffusion folder should have two files like below.

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Step 5: Run Webui​

Follow the steps in this section to start AUTOMATIC1111 GUI for Stable Diffusion.

In the terminal, run the following command.

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

It will take a while when you run it for the very first time.

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Open a web browser and click the following URL to start Stable Diffusion.

http://127.0.0.1:7860/

You should see the AUTOMATIC1111 GUI. Put in a prompt “a cat” and press Generate to test using the GUI.

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Close the terminal when you are done. Follow the steps in this section the next time when you want to run Stable Diffusion.

Here is a how-to-use guide for beginners: How to use Stable Diffusion

Resource: https://stable-diffusion-art.com/install-mac/