Doesn’t seem like much of a linux issue, moreso a Python issue. Python is well known to have one of the worst dev environments of all time, so, yeah this tracks.

The thing conspiring against you is the python language, environment, tool chain and userbase.

I would strongly suggest using docker for this. I don’t know anything about this project but their official github repo already has everything setup for this so it’s pretty mush guaranteed to work properly.

I know it’s annoying having to learn docker (assuming you don’t know it yet) just to install some program, but it’s absolutely necessary to preserve your sanity these days

installing Vim because it seemed like I might need that

Recomendation: use nano or something else instead^[1], it’ll probably work just fine.

Helpful tip: quiting vim can be done by pressing <ESC> (the escape button) and typing :wq (write and quit) or :q! (quit without saving)

Use Docker, it’s ideal for things like this.

Install Docker:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu noble stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
sudo systemctl enable --now docker

This installs the docker project’s GPG key they use to sign their packages, and adds the Ubuntu repo so you can install the packages as they don’t have a Mint specific repo. It then installs Docker and enables it now and on boot.

Run RVC:

mkdir rvc
cd rvc
docker run -d --name rvc --shm-size=256m --gpus all -v ./weights:/app/assets/weights -v ./opt:/app/opt -p 7865:7865 aladdin1234/rvc-webui:0.1

This creates and changes to an “rvc” directory in your current directory to keep things organised. This will download and run a 6GB image of RVC that a third party has published and mounts two directories relative to your current path (hence why we created an “rvc” directory earlier) so you can interchange data with the container, and binds the container’s port 7865 to your host’s 7865 so you can access it. You can always docker build the one that the project provides if you want instead.

In your browser, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:7865/

When you’re done:

docker stop rvc

If you want to start the same container again:

docker start rvc

But then the terminal spat out a message about “adding ‘pyenv’ to the load path”, ~/.bash_profile vs ~/.profile vs ~/.bashrc, and restarting my shell? After consulting a tutorial about this message, and installing Vim because it seemed like I might need that, I was still confused about what I was supposed to do, so I decided to take another break rather than continue to exhaust myself.

The good news is that’s easy, the bad news is I don’t remember the specifics, but I think you’re getting close!

Is this the github repo you used? https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI/blob/main/docs/en/README.en.md

Now you got me worried about installing Mint, I need to since I’m on win 10 or is it fine otherwise outside of this bullshit?

I decided to try to follow along with your steps thinking “I’m technically experienced, I can totally just install it myself, write up a good installation on my Linux Mint partition and share the steps with her!” and I have already been defeated by Mint not wanting to let me use pip and making me make a venv but then not letting me use the venv and then when I get it working not wanting to actually install pytorch. This is indeed glorpshit. I’m sorry, good luck, you should be proud of your tenacity for getting this far already.

This does end up being my problem every time I try to wean myself onto Linux: everything is a fight to customize it and set up what I want. I dual boot and have a few different machines for different OSs because it’s easier to just use different machines for different purposes and the spares I lucked into getting either dirt cheap or entirely free. There’s a Windows partition I only ever use for games that need Windows and if I were trying to use RVC I’d be tempted at this point to just have a small windows partition for using RVC

You can use uv for this. Clone the RVC repo, CD into the directory, run uv venv to create a virtual environment. If there’s a requirements.txt file it’ll get the requirements.

uv will also allow you to change python versions for the venv and uv add dependencies. To pip install something without modifying the package lock, use uv pip install and it’ll install that in the environment.

Here is the previous post in the saga: https://hexbear.net/post/6292252?scrollToComments=false

Have you tried Docker?

That is some shit.