Fooocus and AUTOMATIC1111 on AMD GPUs

[Cordell Bloor <cgmb@slerp.xyz>]

Hey folks,

Back in December, I provided some instructions for setting up ComfyUI. As Bart pointed out, the PyTorch packages distributed through pip actually come bundled with prebuilt ROCm binaries and the apt-provided packages that I'd listed were entirely superfluous [1]. Despite that, it's at least a handy thing to know about.

I figured I'd provide similar installation instructions for Fooocus and AUTOMATIC1111 on Debian Trixie, as I found them to be useful applications. The ComfyUI workflow was a bit too complicated for me, but I found Fooocus and AUTOMATIC1111 to be useful. As a total beginner, I particularly appreciated how easy Fooocus was to get started with.

To run Fooocus:

    apt install git python3-full
      git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus.git
      cd Fooocus
      git checkout 59f183ab9b8e4a4bbf0fb8bc43886e19e8dfdfae
      python3 -m venv venv3
      . venv3/bin/activate
      pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url
      https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.2
      pip install -r requirements_versions.txt
      python3 entry_with_update.py
      # or:
      # python3 entry_with_update.py --preset anime
      # python3 entry_with_update.py --preset realistic

To run AUTOMATIC1111:

    # use spack to install a compatible version
      of python
      sudo apt install bzip2 ca-certificates g++ gcc gfortran git gzip
      lsb-release patch python3 tar unzip xz-utils zstd build-essential
      cmake
      git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true
      https://github.com/spack/spack.git
      cd spack
      git checkout v0.23.1
      . share/spack/setup-env.sh
      spack spec zlib
      spack external find
      spack spec python@3.11
      spack install python@3.11
      spack load python@3.11
      cd ..
      git clone
      https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.git
      cd stable-diffusion-webui
      git checkout v1.10.1
      python -m venv venv3
      . venv3/bin/activate
      python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
      TORCH_COMMAND='pip install torch torchvision torchaudio
      --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.2' python
      launch.py

This is probably quite boring stuff for most of you, but the AUTOMATIC1111 incompatibility with Python 3.12 was a pain. Their install guide recommends using conda, but as someone unfamiliar with that ecosystem, I found the setup to be complex. I'm a big fan of the Spack package manager, so my instructions use that tool instead [2].

I haven't mastered the art of configuring container port permissions, so I didn't test these instructions in an isolated environment. If you have any troubles, please let me know.

Sincerely,
Cory Bloor

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/2024/12/msg00046.html
[2]: https://spack.io/