How to install ComfyUI in Linux

Step 1: Enable NVIDIA driver

Step 2: Install NVIDIA CUDA toolkit

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2404.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2404.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.8.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-8-local_12.8.0-570.86.10-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-8-local_12.8.0-570.86.10-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-8-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-8
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-gds

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/cuda-12.8/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/cuda-12.8/lib64

Step 3: Install Conda environment

wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash ~/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
source ~/.bashrc

Step 4: Install ComfyUI

conda create -n ComfyUI python=3.12.11
conda activate ComfyUI

pip install comfy-cli

comfy --install-completion

comfy install

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128

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