M1 Mac Installation Troubleshooting Guide for Whisper, Ffmpeg and Brew

[brett-b112]

Troubleshooting Installing Whisper

If pip or pip3 is not found this could be a pathing issue try article article to solve this problem.

• sudo stands for: super user do
  • This overrides any issues associated with permissions for downloading or modifying environment and pathing issues.

If you run into problems installing whisper with commands such as pip install -U openai-whisper or updating with pip install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git retry the commands using pip3

pip3 install -U openai-whisper

Alternatively, the following command will pull and install the latest commit from this repository, along with its Python dependencies:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git 

To update the package to the latest version of this repository, please run:

pip3 install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

If none of these work it is possible that this module was previously installed on your device, check with:

pip list or pip3 list

search for whisper within the list to determine if it's already on your machine.

Troubleshooting Installing Brew

Installing homebrew from the command line using the script provided from their official website brew.sh

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

After installing brew ensure that you read the last few lines and copied them into terminal to add to your current environment PATH. If you forgot to copy them modified versions are below.

- Run these two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
#(echo; echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /Users/INSERT USER NAME HERE/.zprofile
#eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

Remove the # and insert your usr name in 'INSERT USER NAME HERE' before pasting in terminal to ensure that it is installed in the proper paths.

If this did not solve the issue you can try this alternative method

1. Open up users folder
2. Press Command + Shift + . to view the hidden folders
3. Open .zshrc folder
4. Add export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH to the folder
5. Save and restart terminal
6. This should solve the issue and the environment can find brew now.

Troubleshooting Installing Ffmpeg

Whispers README.md uses an outdated version of Ffmpeg with more functionality and modularity within the project. This can be found here.

The full documentation of whisper can be found here

Not to many errors arise here if brew is installed correctly however, if you do refer to whisper README.

If you encounter errors while pip installing:

• from the rust website try: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

If rusts exists but is out of date try: rustup update

If you encounter further pathing errors try export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"

If No module named 'setuptools_rust' exists try:

pip install setuptools-rust or pip3 install setuptools-rust

This is a quick condensed trouble shooting guide for problems I faced and have seen online facing those trying to get Whisper installed on M1 Mac.

Thank you!

[AlexDoehring]

Very Helpful Thanks!