Mac Min 4 Install ConfyUI Flux

A birthday present for myself this year was a mac-mini 4 with 16G of RAM and 256G of storage. It’s kind of my first personal mac device. How do I plan to toss it. First, let’s confirm how running Flux works.

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git

To install git on a mac, you need to install homebrew first.Official website address

安装homebrew

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

Install git

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brew install git 
 

confyui

Now open source software installation, the official website are written in detail, do it basically.Mac Installation Links

conda

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curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh 
sh Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh 

Create a confyUI environment

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conda create -n confyui python=3.12.4 

Enter conda

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coda activate confyui 

PyTorch

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pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu 

Verify that the installation is working

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import torch 
if torch.backends.mps.is_available(): 
    mps_device = torch.device("mps") 
    x = torch.ones(1, device=mps_device) 
    print (x) 
else: 
    print ("MPS device not found.") 
 

You’ll see it normally.

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tensor([1.], device='mps:0') 

abort

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quit() 

confyui

Install confyui, very simple, just git download. Currently confyui updates very quickly, only download master on it.

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git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI.git 
cd confyui 
pip install -r requirement.txt 

Once the installation is complete, you can run directly

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python main.py 

Flux

Flux installation at ConfyUI, which has the relevantModule Download Address

You need to pay attention to the path where the files are stored, as mentioned in the article.

• Model: flux1-dev-fp8.safetensors.
• flux_text_encoders: clip_l.safetensors, t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors two files, directory: ComfyUI/models/clip/
• VAE: ae.safetensors Catalog: ComfyUI/models/vae/