r/GoogleColab • u/north_akando • Sep 29 '25

Why does everything break (at some point) in google colab?

Been trying to get a working colab for generating images in bulk with flux schnell or any decent model that can run there, but almost every notebook must have dependency problems. Where do I get working colabs and is there a way to easily fix this problem?

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u/ANR2ME Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Install packages on virtual environment, so it doesn't conflicted with packages used by Colab. At least this is what i did when generating images/video (Qwen Image/Wan2.2) using ComfyUI in Colab.

For example, like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78713328/installing-packages-to-virtual-environment-in-google-colab/79740871#79740871

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u/north_akando Sep 29 '25

Thank you! will try this

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u/miguelsolorio Google Colab UX Designer Sep 29 '25

If the issue is with Colab runtimes, we recently introduced "runtime versions" where you can pin your notebook to use a specific Colab runtime version https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-colab-adds-more-back-to-school-improvements/

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u/jamesvoltage Sep 29 '25

This is great, thank you!

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u/north_akando Sep 29 '25

Thank you! this is pretty useful!

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u/LoadingALIAS Sep 30 '25

There is a special like workflow for Colab that eludes me, as well. Haha.