Installing Stable Diffusion on Fedora 38

In today’s tutorial, we’re going to install Stable Diffusion on Fedora 38.

I’m putting together a lab machine for GPU workloads. And the first thing I wanted to do was get Stable Diffusion running, and I’m also hopeful to start using it for training LoRA’s, embeddings, maybe even a fine tuning checkpoint (we’ll see).

Fedora is my default home server setup, and I didn’t find a direct guide on how to do it, although it’s not terribly different from other distros

…Oddly enough I actually fired this up with Fedora Workstation.

Requirements

• An install of Fedora 38
• A nVidia GPU (if someone has insight on AMD GPUs, and wants to provide instructions, hit me up and I’ll update the article)

Installing Automatic Stable Diffusion WebUI on Fedora 38

I’m going to be using Vladmanic’s fork of Automatic1111 sd webui: https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic

Clone it.

Fedora 38 ships with Python 3.11, but some dependency for stable diffusion requires python 3.11, which will require a few extra steps.

Install python 3.10

dnf install python3.10

Also, before you install CUDA, do a dnf update (otherwise I wound up with mismatched deps for NetworkManager and couldn’t boot off a new kernel, and I had to wheel up a crash cart, just kidding I don’t have a crash cart or a KVM for my Linux lab so it’s much more annoying where I move my server to my workstation area, luckily I just have a desktop server lab)

Install CUDA Toolkit (link is for F37 RPM, but it worked fine on F38)

And – follow the instructions there. You might need to reboot now.

Make a handler script to export the correct python version… I named mine user-webui.sh

#!/bin/bash
export python_cmd=python3.10
screen -S ./webui.sh --listen

NOTE: I fire it up in screen. If you don’t have Stockholm Syndrome for screen you can decide to not be a luddite and modify it to use tmux. And if you need a cheat sheet for screen, there you go. I also use the --listen flag because I’m going to connect to this from other machines on my network.

Then run the ./user-webui.sh once to get the venv, it will likely fail at this point. Or if you’re a smarter python user, create the venv yourself.

Then enter the venv.

 . venv/bin/activate

Then ensurepip…

python3.10 -m ensurepip

And now you can fire up the script!

./user-webui.sh