Cannot Install -- Run.bat issue

[C0sm0sis]

Ends with Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'
press any key to continue just closes the window

Is there really no simple installer program?

[kasparovabi]

The sd.webui.zip package gets this far and then stops at the CLIP step. I could reproduce it with the Python from that zip (3.10.6) on Windows 11, and it is not something you did wrong.

On first start get-pip.py installs the current pip (26.2.2 here). The packaged Python has no venv module, so pip 26 builds https://github.com/openai/CLIP/archive/...zip in its older isolated build environment (pip\_internal\build_env\virtual.py). That one hides every path from site.getsitepackages(), and on Windows that list contains the Python folder itself (system\python). In this package the .pyd files, including _socket.pyd, sit in that folder. setuptools then fails on import socket and pip only reports it as Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'. The hidden error under it is:

File "...\pip-build-env-...\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_vendor\jaraco\context\__init__.py", line 14
    import urllib.request
  ...
  File "socket.py", line 51, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket'

What worked for me. Open a command prompt in the folder that has run.bat and run

system\python\python.exe -m pip install "setuptools<81"

then add this line to environment.bat, under the other set lines:

set PIP_NO_BUILD_ISOLATION=0

(the 0 is right, for pip this variable means "turn build isolation off"). Then start run.bat again.

The two changes are needed together. With build isolation off, pip builds CLIP with the setuptools in system\python, and CLIP's setup.py imports pkg_resources, which setuptools 81 and later no longer ship. With isolation off but setuptools 84 I got No module named 'pkg_resources'. With setuptools 80.10.2 and isolation off, pip install of the CLIP archive finished with Successfully installed clip-1.0. Leaving isolation on still failed with the same error, whatever setuptools version I pinned.

I only checked the CLIP step. torch is a large download and I did not run the whole install, so a later package might still need a fix of its own.

[Ineman]

Stop using this program that hasn’t been developed over two years.