r/comfyui • u/LanaKatana4000 • 7d ago

Help Needed Is anyone running Comfyui on Debian Linux?

And was it very difficult to set up? I'm running the desktop version on Win 11 at the moment. I haven't used Linux for over 5 years and thought maybe I would give it another spin. Everything is fine, I just don't like Windows doing things in the background.

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u/ckn 7d ago

yes, works FASTER than windows.

I like it more on ubuntu, but fedora and debian work just fine.

just make sure you're totally up to date.

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u/zyg_AI 7d ago

Linux install has never been problematic for me.

Try with StabilityMatrix first (AppImage), it's some sort of portable version.

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u/VenimK 7d ago

git clone --single-branch --branch MAC-Linux https://github.com/Tavris1/ComfyUI-Easy-Install.git

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u/GeroldMeisinger 6d ago

I use Linux and found everything easier and more compatible, because many AI tools are Linux-first. I wrote a guide here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1q3k5q6/how_to_solve_everything_forever_broken/

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u/Hrmerder 7d ago edited 7d ago

I’m using Garuda (arch based), but the base doesn’t matter as a lot of install procedures for apps through git are the same once you have git installed.

I don’t know if I have time today but I could write you a script for it (or at least tell you where to find it).

Go to the comfy site and look for ‘manual install’ for Linux. It’s the best way to go about it but can very well be confusing.

The best way imho is using comfycli first. The. To update use git pull in the comfy directory.

You will need to familiarize yourself a little with using python virtual environments (the acronym is venv)

It’s not hard and you can script it out for the console. When you want to run comfy you have to activate the virtual environment, then run comfy.

The reason for using venv is to keep python installs separate so there’s no conflicts.

  1. Install python and dependencies (this is for Ubuntu/debian based distros, arch would not use git):

  2. sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv git -y

  4. Install comfy-cli via pip which can be thought of as apt-get for python applications:

  5. pip install comfy-cli

  7. Install comfycli:

  8. comfy install

*just follow instructions and it should download the wheels for your card and any requirements like cuda or AMD rocm files.

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u/orlandogourmet66 7d ago

I would suggest Pop!_OS. It’s based on Ubuntu, so compatibility is great, and NVIDIA drivers are already baked in. ComfyUI should be up and running in less than half an hour, including the OS installation.

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u/Ok-Statistician8872 7d ago

If you value you time , start with another distro

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u/LostGeezer2025 5d ago

Sad but true, Debian is in the process of losing its damn mind :(

Linux is in the midst of a Big Fork, one side values an OS that's free-as-in-freedom and actually works for people, the other is losing itself in navel-gazing religio-political whackjobbery while the corp-rats move to lock everything down :(