WebUI Installation

Introduction

Stable Diffusion (SD) is a powerful opensource AI-based generative model that excels at creating high-quality images from text descriptions. However, source code of SD is not quite user-friendly, imposes a significant learning burden on those who have not studied programming.

Thanks to the strong open-source community, various convenient tools and plugins for using SD quickly emerged, and the WebUI developed by AUTOMATIC1111 was undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools at the time.

Prerequisite

1. Python 3.10.6 and Git etc.:

   • Windows: download and run installers for Python 3.10.6 (Add to PATH) (webpage, exe, or win7 version) and git (webpage)

2. Code from this repository:

   • preferred way: using git: git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.git.
     • This way is preferred because it lets you update by just running git pull.
   • alternative way: use the “Code” (green button) -> “Download ZIP” option on the main page of the repo.
     • To update, you’ll have to download zip again and replace files.

Installation

1 Use Release

1. Download sd.webui.zip from v1.0.0-pre and extract its contents.
2. Run update.bat.
3. Run run.bat.

2 Or Source Code

1. Download the stable-diffusion-webui repository, for example by running git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.git.
2. Run webui-user.bat from Windows Explorer as normal, non-administrator, user.

TODO: Add installation guide on linux.