u2net.pth unable to automatically download due to permission issue about clipasso HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @teyou, thanks for your interest in our project, and thanks for sharing your solution.

Another possible solution in case the provided link is not working, is using this command to download the trained weights of u2net from huggingface:
wget https://huggingface.co/akhaliq/CLIPasso/resolve/main/u2net.pth --output-document=U2Net_/saved_models/u2net.pth

(Credit to @AK391 for uploading this file).

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the fix is simply to change the gdown version to the latest one

ref: wkentaro/gdown#43

If still have issue, can try this step

pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir gdown

then 
1. cd to `./U2Net_/saved_models/`
2. run gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1ao1ovG1Qtx4b7EoskHXmi2E9rp5CHLcZ 

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