Install DaVinci Resolve on ANY Linux Distro

[@MichaelNROH]

Dependencies for Resolve: sudo dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libxcrypt-compat xcb-util-renderutil xcb-util-wm pulseaudio-libs xcb-util xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms libxkbcommon-x11 libXrandr libXtst mesa-libGLU mtdev libSM libXcursor libXi libXinerama libxkbcommon libglvnd-egl libglvnd-glx libglvnd-opengl libICE librsvg2 libSM libX11 libXcursor libXext libXfixes libXi libXinerama libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11 libXrandr libXrender libXtst libXxf86vm mesa-libGLU mtdev pulseaudio-libs xcb-util alsa-lib apr apr-util fontconfig freetype libglvnd fuse-libs AMD GPU: sudo dnf install rocm-openCL NVIDIA GPU (with RPM Fusion): sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda *Note: Make also sure that your user is part of the group "render" on your host! (usermod -aG render {your username})

[@Contmotore]

Omg, it's finally running! Resolve only gave me one pop-up error "unable to load plugin: USD.plugin libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", so I had to install libXt as well. Wish me good luck, time to try out! 🤞

[@shadowseek27]

what do you mean by "*Note: Make also sure that your user is part of the group "render" on your host!" ?

[@danonino2003]

Can you do a guide for SteamOs from scratch?

[@flamingscar5263]

@@danonino2003 the great thing about Distrobox is that the setup is the same on every distro, although SteamOS is a bit of a different distro so getting distrobox running on SteamOS may end up the harder part, but once Distrobox is installed the rest would be the exact same

[@JuanPerez-lg8yl]

@@flamingscar5263 I Installed fedora 39 on my Steam Deck, was a s***, so I installed fedora 38 and after I installed all the libraries and after that resolve works with images and sounds but no with videos 🥲 so I installed all the video codes and still nothing...🙃

[@koromau3854]

I appreciate you always keeping it real man, no clickbait or linux fanboyish just honest feedback and solutions!

[@SunCrushr]

FYI, if you get a fuse error when running the installer, you need to install fuse, not just fuse-libs.

[@jaizon]

Thank you!!!!!1

[@Contmotore]

Thanks Sir

[@derakte4183]

You are a lifesaver man!

[@SunCrushr]

@@derakte4183 Glad my old comment helped!

[@LunarList]

is still gives the error

[@MastermindAtWork]

Wait minute, now thinking about it, this method might not just work for Davinci Resolve but for Autodesk Maya as well since that software is primarily supported on RHEL and CentOS.

[@MichaelNROH]

It can, if you can figure out the dependencies. For resolve it was quite easy since the installer tells you what you need if no optional version is installed.

[@dewanata_armoon]

@@MichaelNROH hello mister what the equivalent for orcm-opencl for intel UHD grapich? does davinci resolve works with intel gen10 mobile?

[@MrGamelover23]

​@@dewanata_armoonIt won't officially support integrated graphics on Linux, but it will on Windows. There are ways to work around it for amd, idk about intel.

[@halopghoul2751]

@@MrGamelover23 and how to launch with the vega 8 built-in? are there solutions for linux?

[@Siltprogramation]

Great video! This is a good solution, however, a better one would have been for the developpers to pack the application in a flatpack, app image or snap.

[@MichaelNROH]

Indeed

[@maviniii]

I totally agree!

[@friedrichhayek4862]

Never snap

[@no_name4796]

Or put the damn dependecies by default

[@adam91303]

Maybe it's worth writing to the blackmagic developers? :)

[@pensive_]

Been trying for 4 years to get it going on MX as I dont want a separate server running Redhat just for Davinci. I cannot thank you enough for this solution. I can now eliminate an entire dedicated server and run Davinci on the server it is supposed to. Excellent.

[@pensive_]

The advice sure is the right way to go thank you. I managed to get as far as installing Davinci, but it chokes. Its for reasons, not to do with your advice. It is QT and Python again at work here. If I can get Davinci to start up, this will be great. Your advice at least helped me to get this far. However, using the exact steps you did with the exact Fedora etc, Davinci wont run because of the following error. " This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb. " Strange that I got to this unresolvable Python/QT nonsense following the same advice. Wherever Python and or QT goes, goes trouble - guaranteed. They are half baked languages.

[@gmt1]

This is really cool, but they really should just provide Davinci Resolve as a Flatpak or Snap package.

[@MichaelNROH]

100% they should. Even if they are just focused on enterprises, they already have to support three operating systems. While they are similar, they are not identical, so flatpak would even lessen the workload for them.

[@MrGamelover23]

​@@MichaelNROHWell, it seems that right now, they literally only support one distro: Rocky Linux.

[@rjlarussa4136]

You saved me hours and hours of headaches of keeping Resolve running on a rolling release distro. Thank you!!!!

[@MichaelNROH]

Sorry for the audio quality in today's video. I tried my best to get rid of the echo, caused by the new mic, but I couldn't do more sadly 😔

[@DullJoker]

Hey man, no probs🤙

[@shock59]

It is not really that bad, however adding background music could possibly make it less noticeable.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

:3 Awesome! I've wanted to use DaVinci since I've wanted to get into editing videos for personal and to make money, and I'm part Italian/Greek (also, Da Vinci was vegetarian, and I'm vegan, so that's cool), but I've heard it barely works. This video was in my feed. DaVinci looks so much better than Shotcut, and Kdenlive, though I've used them a bit with not much complaint (picking what to edit isn't so easy, and effects aren't so easy to figure out).

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

Does it support H.264? Will it run well on older/lower end hardware (I7 7700HQ, GTX 1050, 16GB RAM)?

[@friedrichhayek4862]

This is funny, because the installer is an appimage

[@FengLengshun]

I love how everyone is now loving Containers. Please also try out Conty (basically distrobox as a single binary), Junest (Arch Distrobox but proot/chroot based instead of container based), and runimage (similar to Conty but focused on overlayfs). They're all pretty great.

[@digicinematic]

Wave 1: VMs, Wave 2: Containers, Wave 3: WASM and WASI.

[@matthiasbendewald1803]

Awesome, thank you for the detailed and good explanation. You or someone else could also setup the container and put it on a container registry, that way it would make it even easier for everyone else and future you to get it running. Maybe leave away the program itself... Or put together a docker file so that it is easier for everyone, too.

[@VinylRescue]

With a bit of beating about the head and shoulders I got Resolve running great on Zorin 17! I do have to use Shutter Encoder to convert MP4 to MOV and then back to MP4 before uploading my 4K video to KZbin.

[@raygan]

Hell yeah, I was banging my head against the wall trying to install Resolve on Fedora 39 until I found this video. Thanks!

[@hydroboy17]

For those not being able to install with sudo and are on a wayland-system: > sudo dnf install xhost then > xhost + then run the install as root and it should work! Took me forever to figure this one out :D

[@Dm0z_]

this worked perfectly on mint

[@nerd-e-coyote8463]

you sir (or m'lady), deserve a raise. been at it for hours...

[@SunCrushr]

You, sir are a legend. I can now run Resolve on whatever distro I want. This is awesome.

[@wurstgriller]

hi, after doing everything exactly like in this video, i still got the error "unsupported gpu processing mode" within davinci. so i searched with dnf like this: "dnf search opencl" - it found a package named "mesa-libOpenCL" and i installed it (i'm on a radeon rx 7800 xt-gpu) like this: "sudo dnf install mesa-libOpenCL" and voila: Resolve opened and worked for me! Very great tut @Michael

[@wurstgriller]

Edit: now i got a problem within resolve: i can import via -> media -> file, but cant play the video nor creating any timeline which works. i also tried to convert the video-file to .mov-format but that also not works. HELP!!

[@JumperTheHero]

@@wurstgriller This is what I am getting too. I haven't been able to fix it yet. It apparently has to do with the AMD drivers not being supported for Davinci Resolve.

[@dexgaming6394]

Congrats, 10k subs!

[@MichaelNROH]

Thanks 😉 Psst, there is a reason why I haven't acknowledged it yet 🤫

[@grilo4691]

YO DUDE, THANKS A LOT! I TRIED SO MAMY TIMES TO DOWNLOAD RESOLVE AND NO ONE WORRKED, BUT YOUR VIDEO SAVDE ME, THANKS A LOT!!!!!

[@mundodigitalradiante]

Hello, Amarildo Konorat, here in Brazil, following this great solution that you show in this video. In my case, I have MX Linux and the idea is, without a shadow of a doubt, fantastic. I'm going to test it here on my distribution with RX 580 CPU XEON 2680 V-4 with 32 GB of RAM. I wish that the majority of Linux channels here in Brazil would be nothing more than a showcase where the only purpose is not to show features but to try to harm Linux in Brazil. Of course, this is not a generalization, but the big channels focus on seeing things working and not making them work. I hope the audio track for the videos also dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese comes soon. Big hug and success.

[@demanuDJ]

I'm not using DaVincii Resolve but it helped me with installing other propietary software which works with specific libs from ubuntu 18.04

[@Beryesa.]

Once rusticl becomes stable and saves us from proprietary amd opencl, flatpak gets better GPGPU support and flathub sorts out the payments, imagine a single click from gnome software/plasma discover and voilà! Until that day, thanks :D Though, fedora 37 support will and with fedora 39 release so... Something more LTS (redhat/centos/rocky) could be better maybe.

[@Combo_Food]

So I’m kinda new to using Linux, I’m really stuck on the part where you put the distribution around 5:20. It ask me if. I want to pull the image, when putting y I get an error and when putting n it makes me put another command that also doesn’t work. Just really confused and in dire need of help

[@ahmseb]

Thanks for your video it helps me install peace of software on Fedora that I've been trying to install for ages and now with your help I've installed it with ease👍

[@BLC2022]

Help! im in the installation wizard and it says: Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory , and in the terminal: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host brawllaunchchannel _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host brawllaunchchannel Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket QWizard::setField: No such field 'options.uninstall' QWizard::field: No such field 'options.uninstall'

[@sg96951]

Followed your tutorial but still failed to install (on latest linux mint) I got following error: uthorization required, but no authorization protocol specified qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.

[@MichaelNROH]

Please check if you have actually done all the steps mentioned in the pinned comment. This is usually an NVIDIA error

[@garretthuffman2412]

​@@MichaelNROHhaving this issue but I'm not using Nvidia. I'm using the opencl drivers. Any help to point me in the right direction would be great!

[@zetetic-astronomer]

For arch based distros (including SteamOS 3) you need to run: xhost +si:localuser:$USER

[@Noel_FGC]

this looked like it was working (im on an nvidia gpu) and i loaded into the project manager, but after closing it and reopening it through the shortcut it doesn't appear to work, and launching it manually through the terminal says unsupported gpu processing mode (i checked, nothing has been uninstalled)

[@Steblu74]

Michael- There are hundreds of people trying to run Davinci Resolve on Linux and trying to st up their GPU drivers (either Nvidia or AMD). Could you create a video showing a step-by-step walk thru on this process, either with Ubuntu Cinnamon or Debian? I don’t even CARE which distro you use, GPU acceleration seems to be the problem.. Thanks

[@somethingbigger001]

Never had problems on linux mint. Install and done.

[@segvet9729]

good for you

[@bobd2028]

Advantage of Just Works distro.

[@--Morpheus--]

Thanks, trying it out today!

[@fabienmargerie6815]

Well done and thanks Michael for your super work, see you soon! 👍😎👋

[@linoxyard]

There's also a project called flatpak-resolve, which packages Resolve into a flatpak. That's the way I've been using it for a while

[@youtube.user.1234]

Does it work properly as a flatpak?

[@linoxyard]

@@youtube.user.1234 The main program does, with an nvidia card and proprietary drivers (you need flatpak nvidia drivers installed of course). The other apps, like Raw benchmark don't work, and I hear there are issues with AMD rocm opencl drivers (probably the cause is no flatpak'd rocm)

[@TheRatRDR]

I get "error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" when i try to run it

[@PixelSheep]

same - does anyone have some ideas on what to do?

[@PixelSheep]

this solved it for me "sudo dnf install ocl-icd" - hope this helps! :)

[@danthebee27]

@@PixelSheep No idea if your gonna see this but thank you so much it worked!

[@PixelSheep]

@@danthebee27 I did see it :D Glad I could help! :)

[@DanasAnis]

Am I the only one who just runs davinci resolve installer in Kubuntu 22.04 and it works? The key point is to use proprietary graphics drivers, I am on Nvidia and as long as I launch davinci resolve using Nvidia graphics mode it simply works. But I agree that we should push BMD to make a flatpak, Lightworks now offers Flatpak and snap packages in addition to deb and rpm, BDM surely should be capable as well.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Thanks for the video. This got me 95% of the way, but I just couldn't get Resolve to properly recognize my NVidia GPU (could be the drivers I'm using on Linux Mint on my host machine lagging behind, I can get all the way up to loading Resolve, but it then shouts at me about my GPU settings and i'm given the option to change settings that does nothing) I still think I can figure out what's wrong here, so this still helped massively with that.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Should add some more notes. If you're running an nvidia GPU, when you create the distrobox, add --nvidia at the end of the command, that will solve many of your problems.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

I got it all working in the end :D

[@trapexit]

Containers aren't really a specific thing. It is a name for the set of features Linux has to isolate resources or create namespaces of resource for a process. "Containers can run on your PC like any other program." .... that's because they are just a program.

[@df0rce]

Super cool! Highly appreciated.

[@GreenScreenExplorer]

This is awesome, Thank you for sharing

[@blkspade23]

While the content here overall is great, for your personally described use case, the rocm bits are separate from the actual AMD drivers. So you can keep the opensource display and vulkan drivers either way.

[@pantarei.]

Why it is so complicated? There is no way that a regular Windows user would accept something like that. More - DaVinci for linux does not support MP4 and AAC format. Why nobody mention that?

[@AndRei-yc3ti]

Because you should blame the dev for making it this way. And AAC and MP4 works on the paid version.

[@pickledoreos]

it seems to have installed fine but there's no icon and when it launches I get the error "Unable to load plugin: USD.plugin". The timeline is also invisible for some reason...

[@t0uchme343]

I got this video sneak into my recommendeds so I hopped into AUR out of curiosity to see if I'd get problems during installation. I am not a content creator or anything so I won't be actually using it but, true enough, I got some blank, white, apparently welcome screen before I got into the program. I killed the white overlay of death and it was working afterwards.

[@lionartiste]

Has anyone managed to do this with NVIDIA GPU ? I'm trying this on NixOS, but Resolve throws an error at startup and doesn't seem to find the GPU 😅 So frustrating, I feel like I'm so close !

[@MichaelNROH]

I can't test it at the moment, but it seems like you need to install the NVIDIA driver on your host, as well as inside the container. (You might need to restart it again). The nvidia-smi command should work on the host as well as within distrobox.

[@lionartiste]

@@MichaelNROH Thank you ! I tried this, but nothing works at the moment. I'll continue my tests :)

[@RacsuTech]

@@lionartiste hi, I did it installing all the nvidia drivers on the container, akmod-nvidia, nvidia cuda etc, is working fine for me

[@lionartiste]

@@RacsuTech It's good to know it can work, it's encouraging ! I'm still unlucky on my side, I followed all tutorials I could find, installed NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, OpenGL... But it still gives me an error. Maybe this comes from the container's driver's version being not the same as in the host. I put all my hopes in Distrobox's last update that lets a container use its host's NVIDIA drivers, can't wait for it to be available on NixOS 🤞🏻

[@ThePhantomsPen-z6i]

It also worked for me but only with Fedora 39 using "distrobox-create --name Resolve-Fedora-39 --image fedora:39 --nvidia --root --additional-flags "--privileged" ", then enter with "distrobox-enter --name Resolve-Fedora-39 --root" , and you can check with "nvidia-smi". Then just installed those dependencies in the video description. Don't forget to enable RPM fusion.

[@kimmysander2447]

To anyone running this on a laptop getting the error GPU memory full, while having literally nothing in your timeline, go back to your bios, and disable hybrid mode so Only your dedicated GPU is active - yes your pc will eat more power, but davinci will work!

[@BlazeingGoldReviews]

sudo dnf install pkexec does not work. Last metadata expiration check: 0:27:46 ago on Thu Jun 8 01:03:12 2023. No match for argument: pkexec Error: Unable to find a match: pkexec thats the error i get

[@MichaelNROH]

If you reach that one, you just need to execute the installer with sudo.

[@sNiksnakYT]

hey i installed all dependencies but after launching DVR the timelines do not load. i cant import clips or anything

[@jmalmsten]

This does seem promising. But as a Linux Noob. Resolve compability has been the thing that is keeping me on Windows. Because... Just looking at the hoops required for linux users to do most things. I am more than a little intimidated. So many things make me ask... Why is this the users task to solve? If Linux truly wants to be the ruling OS of the masses. There really needs to be an overhaul of basics. Reinstalling the same app over and over to weed out the dependencies (whatever that means)??? Should there not be an option in the myriad of terminal commands to install the necessary bits and bobs automagically. And should that not be the default option in the first place? A "this will run the app on most systems and you can opt to do things manually if you want or if the defaults don't work as expected"? Sorry it became an unintelligible rant. But still. I am very much confused about why this is the end users problem.

[@MichaelNROH]

DaVinci Resolve has the unintended disadvantage that it was never meant for regular Desktop users but only for professional use cases like movie production. The Windows version is the only one which can be used quite effortlessly. The free version on both MacOS and Linux are not as functional and are meant to be only deployed on tested operating System (CentOS, RockyOS, Rhel)

[@AlucardaPapere]

Keep in mind, this is an issue mostlry relegated to creators type software, where most of them are not even available on linux

[@yjk_ch]

I've already got Resolve working using MakeResolveDeb and AMD proprietary drivers, but at least now I know alternative method when stuff breaks :D The only bummer about Resolve on Linux is that there's no H.264 export support unless you have NVIDIA GPU. I can reencode output to H.264, but still.

[@douglasbuchanan2973]

PEOPLE WANT THINGS THAT WORK and LAST A LONG TIME!!!!!Thanks for the INFO

[@Nullifer]

I've finished and the app opens, however I get unsupported GPU processing mode. I'm on NVIDIA, can't seem to get Nvidia drivers inside the distrobox

[@zhanko73]

You should use the --nvidia parameter, however regardless the nvidia-smi see the video card, DRS still show unsupported GPU processing mode. Here is the command that I used which was a step closer to the solution: distrobox-create --nvidia --name Resolve-Fedora-37 --image fedora:37

[@Chris-el8is]

Danke vielmals für deine Hilfe. Werde ich sofort mal ausprobieren. Grüsse

[@NotGabe001]

I really hope one day they make an open source version of Resolve. Then maybe we won't have to deal with this and just install it from the repo. I know it won't happen, but I can dream.

[@MichaelNROH]

It wouldn't even need to be open source. Flatpaks and non-free software are already part of the Linux ecosystem

[@proctoscopefilms]

Olive video editor is supposed to be that. It's very ambitious, but it's stalled already.

[@JahidulIslam]

You can build flatpak yourself.

[@RubyRoks]

Glad i came across this. I'm getting closer and closer to tossing Windows and a number of other programs in the trash and wanted to make sure some of my more necessary applications will play ball.

[@MichaelNROH]

[@DominikLuebben]

Resolve flawlessly installs and runs with my AMD 7900xt with the Fedora 37 container, however, the timeline and controls aren't displayed correctly. I setup distrobox on Fedora 39 with curl and podman, because it wasn't possible to use the available package. Do you know how I can fix that? Might it be a podman issue and I should try docker?

[@jay-j6l]

UPDATE: My crashes when I switch from "cut" to "edit" studio. Screw this, going back to kdenlive with 10 bit colour support and a host of other codecs support for free. I has to add 3 more missing depedencies but got it working on openSUSE TW with Fedora39 running in distrobox. Also if you have a nvidia video card, just make sure to install the nvidia container toolkit. Then when creating a distrobox image, make sure to pass the "--nvidia" switch and you will get GPU support.

[@dy2c]

thank you so much man!

[@jamescampbell6728]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who went through hell on fedora 38 lol

[@gungun974]

I always failed to do that on every distro I haved. THANKS YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL ❤

[@MichaelNROH]

Happy to help

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

this solution will use the same ammount of resources as an virtual machine? because i have an potato pc...

[@DJNightchild]

No, because it's not virtualization. Containers do not take much resources, except perhaps disk space.

[@henriquekirchheck]

Containers use the same Kernel as your native distro making them incredibly efficient, so it will only need a little bit more disk space because of the repeated dependencies.

[@monochrome_linux]

Containers run at the same speed as your host PC. The only sacrifice is some storage space.

[@red_geist9741]

I just wish BlackMagic would do better at supporting Linux. This is pretty ridiculous to still be this much of a pain in 2024.

[@MichaelNROH]

We need a lot more people in the industry that use more modern Operating Systems for this to happen it seems. The one's that use the Linux version in production (and I mean big ones) just use the old Rocky Linux one, it's really only suitable for this one use case.

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

​@@MichaelNROH Do you mean download the ver 9.4 Desktop/Workstation Live Images ?

[@RobotoSkunk]

For some reason, distrobox didn't work for me, but uninstalling mesa-libOpenCL and installing rocm-opencl in Fedora 40 worked without needing to do anything else to fix OpenCL problem. To install it, I had to remove some broken DaVinci Resolve libraries and ignore libraries check

[@SteavenGamerYT1]

thanks, it really worked, i thinked I had to reboot to windows every time I wanted to use Resolve, I guess Fedora 38 broke it forever, I had to remove Arch to Fedora, because Arch kept breaking

[@Canleaf08]

So fedora is the better distro for DaVinci? I used Xubuntu for that, got it almost launched. Good idea with the container approach.

[@MichaelNROH]

For AMD hardware I found it to be the best due to the rocm-opencl package that just works. Some other distros also have similar packages (or in the AUR), but many of them don't include everything Resolve needs.

[@josephboanas9709]

Hey! Great video, worked all the way through until it came to /opt/bin/... etc; it says "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". Any solutions? (Linux Mint 22 for my distro, fedora 37 (same as the vid) for distrobox)

[@MichaelNROH]

Did you assign your user to the "render" group? I pinned it as a comment. Last I checked (more than a year ago though), Debian based distros require this additional step

[@josephboanas9709]

@@MichaelNROH i'll try it now!

[@josephboanas9709]

so earlier, i stopped the original distrobox, so it no longer exists for me, but now i can't create a new one; i'll figure it out some more tomorrow, but for now, thank you for the help you've given, i hope my failure can help someone succeed! God bless you and the people who need help with this

[@shankar66]

bro i am trying this for 2 days please help me. i have ubuntu. i installed distrobox and set everything as you told. but when i was installing nvidia drivers it gave error it was saying 185mb more diskspace required. by the way more than 25 gb was free in the disk.

[@leeuca]

The thing is, that you dont need to install the drivers at all. I was tinkering with this a lot. It seems that you just need to make sure, that the host has the most recent drivers + cuda installed. Then go into the container and use sudo dnf install ocl-icd-devel and in my case this fixed the issue! I'm running this on Ubuntu 24

[@creatfunandunique]

help ! I wanted to add komaika axis font from da fonts , installed otf , ttf files installed both of them it appears fine in kdenlive software but davinci resolve doesnt shows the font i downloaded , and i have tried other 2-3 fonts like chicago and other fonts as well and it appears in kdenlive but not in davinci *****why or davinci doesnt support downloaded fonts ???

[@MichaelNROH]

Resolve's individual "programs" are being built differently. The Editing mode usually reads both user and system fonts, while Fusion only reads system fonts by default. I talked about this at the end of this video: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/j37Xm4WeZtuYlaM

[@mamaelas]

I got stuck before any chance of getting it installed. I got distrobox with podman though Pamac in Manjaro, then followed the steps to allow podman to work rootless and then proceeded to install Davinci in the container. But I can´t get into the installation because it says that ¨It can´t be executed. File does not exist¨, like bash can´t found it, even if the .run file is recognized in the folder when I use de ls command and also I use ./ as it recommended in the video. As well I did the chmod +x procedure. May you know what is the problem? Anything seems to work

[@Flames_Spirit]

thankyou so muxh ❣

[@ginjalkesayangan]

help! in my setup it says DaVinci Resolve could not initialize OpenGL. i'm using nvidia GPU and done the 'sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda'

[@MichaelNROH]

The driver versions between distrobox and the host need to match it seems. You can download the drivers from the website and use them in distrobox

thanks a lot, works fine at fedora 38

[@protossss]

Hi! I tried to follow your instructions on ubuntu 24.04. AMD 7800 XTX, Gnome/wayland. I used Fedora as explaind. I have installed DRS 19.0.2. Installation went Fine. GPU is detected. But when I try to add some Media (e.g. JPG file) it DRS only shows a white Frame with no content. Any idea?

[@tapebysea]

Awesome tutorial, imma try to do this. Do you know if Distrobox adds any significant overhead?

[@MichaelNROH]

Technically yes, but it's practically not noticeable at all. Containers are heavily used in the enterprise business and offer near native performance

[@Bits4you]

appreciate this video. Thank you

[@sasiandk]

Great video, very helpfull for me. 😀

[@EnFuego79]

Are you aware that Nobara already has most of the dependencies pre-loaded and an app to fix any that resolve is missing? It also has an option to install enhanced AMD drivers. Problem is the BRAW speed test doesn't work, and the RAW video player doesn't work either. Still trying to figure that out.

[@liskjyt6593]

my friend i'm getting this error, do you have any clue what might be the reason? qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[@matthewjorgensen9115]

I am also getting this Using Debain testing and wayland/sway. With both distrobox fedora 37 and 38

[@DHotdog85]

I am getting this problem, as well. Tried Fedora 37 and 38 with both docker and podman under distrobox, on Arch. I'll update, if I figure it out. Using XFCE on X11, if that makes a difference.

[@DHotdog85]

The post by @Afif87123, farther up in the comments section, ended up being the fix for me: Make sure you have xhost installed on the host system. Then in a terminal, on the host system, enter the following two commands: xhost +si:localuser:$USER xhost +si:localuser:root Try installing DaVinci Resolve in the container, again. It *should* work, now. Seems as though it was a permissions issue that was preventing the container system from being able to access the display server on the host system.

[@DHotdog85]

@@callmetatan xhost **should** be installed, by default. You can check by opening up a terminal and typing 'xhost', without any additional parameters/arguments, and seeing what the response is. Assuming it **is** installed, you should see something like: "access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect SI:localuser:(your username)" If it's **not** already installed, for some reason, then install the package 'x11-xserver-utils'. xhost is part of that package. You can do that either from the Software Manager program or from the terminal window with the command: "sudo apt install x11-xserver-utils" My system uses X11. But, it **looks** like this method should work on Wayland, as well, based on what I've just looked up.

[@DHotdog85]

​@@callmetatan I posted a reply, yesterday. But, it didn't stick, for some reason. So, let's try this, again...: xhost is likely already installed, if your system uses X11 as its display server. But, if it's not, you can get it by installing the package 'x11-xserver-utils'. xhost is a part of that. You can check if it's installed or not by opening up a terminal and entering the command 'xhost' without any additional arguments/options. That should return something along the lines of "access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect". From there, just enter the commands from the previous comment. I use XFCE on my system. Which, uses X11 as its display server. Which, it appears as though Mint is still using X11 for its Cinnamon Edition. At least that seemed to be the case when I recently ran it as a Live USB session, to poke around. But, based on what I looked up, this should still work even if the host system is using Wayland instead of X11.

[@Totallynotmwa]

Installing rocky linux inside of distrobox helped but i cannot get the nvidia drivers/its hard (Had to install with --nvidia and ocl-icd)

[@theseal6681]

I followed every step with an intel arc a770 16gb GPU up until 6:47 since i was in an intel GPU i did not really know what to do next, so i decided to install mesa-libOpenCL and installed then libxcrypt-compat and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, but when i typed in /opt/resolve/bin/resolve the error message appeared: /opt/resolve/bin/resolve: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_string_free_and_steal i do not really know what to do next, so can someone please tell me what to do next? Btw i used linux mint 21.3 edge edition

[@ThePhantomsPen-z6i]

I got the same error Fedora 39 because of the glib2 and pango version incompatibilities: "./resolve: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_string_free_and_steal". Got solved with "sudo cp /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 /opt/resolve/libs/ ". But then got "./resolve: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_task_set_static_name". Here removing the conflicting library files from /opt/resolve/libs with "sudo rm -f libglib-2.0.so* libgio-2.0.so* libgmodule-2.0.so* libgobject-2.0.so*" seemed to do the trick. Then I could run resolve without any issues. Hope it helps. 🙌

[@chrisp267]

Hey Michael, vielen Dank für deine tollen Videos! Eine Frage: Ich habe alles genauso gemacht, wie im Video beschrieben, beim Start von resolve erscheint jedoch das Fenster, welches besagt: "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode". Ich kann auch meine GPU nicht auswählen, sie wird nicht angezeigt. Ich habe eine Radeon RX 7900XTX. Hast du eine Idee? Danke!

[@iguanaman08]

Managed to get it installed on Linux Mint after a couple of hours. When I drag an MP4 clip onto the timeline, only the audio appears. Can't figure out what's missing.

[@MichaelNROH]

Did you buy the studio edition? The free version doesn't come with H.264 support which is the codec that is often being used for mp4 by default.

[@iguanaman08]

@@MichaelNROH Thanks for the reply. I only have the free version. I guess I'll have to convert the video files. 😬

[@MichaelNROH]

@@iguanaman08 I would recommend using a different codec going forward. With a decent rig, AV1 is an option, even without hardware acceleration

[@chuckthegreyt]

I don't do any heavy editing, but want to try DR , will this method work if no standalone graphics card is installed. I am running an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with integrated graphics. I am running Debian 12 on my system.

[@MichaelNROH]

It should be able to run, but performance wise you probably won't be able to do heavy editing, especially on high resolutions.

[@chuckthegreyt]

@@MichaelNROH thank yo for the reply, much appreciated, Like i said, I don't do any heavy editing, more want to play around with it. If I find myself diving deeper into editing, ill invest in a graphics card. Much appreciated again

[@Smarthalayla]

Questions- if I want to move from Windows 10 to Linux and having all the third party software run on Linux. Some of those are portable software which don't need installation on windows. Will the work? Also, I would like to keep the look and feel as in Windows 10 with a "start" menu as it was in windows 7. which version of Linux will do the job without any hassle?

[@MichaelNROH]

It would depend what that third party software does. If they include drivers, then they won't run the same as on Windows. The rest just might. You can take a looks at compatibility on the WINEHQ website. Generally speaking, if you want the classic Windows experience, then you should go for the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. If you still want to tweak it a bit, then you can do so. They advertise popular distros on their website as well, so you can just choose one. They are all similar

[@JahidulIslam]

Proper Fedora only needs libglu or something like that. Rest is same as RHEL or Cent OS.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Is there any way to get the speed editor to work for resolve within the distrobox? When I initially tried to install resolve on my OS without distrobox, resolve could see the speed editor.

[@ozb2006]

hi so i am having a ton of problems!, i am very very bad at the cli, and i went to do this with chat gpt, and i've been at it for oo 5 hours now... and i can't get the fedora 37 container to install the program, now sense this is a container then can share a download like to the container you have made? and this way anyone who want's to run davinci resolve under what ever os can just download the container and open in distrobox?

[@MichaelNROH]

I wish that was possible, but it's not allowed to redistribute DaVinci Resolve without a commercial license.

[@Shrapnel_Music]

@@MichaelNROH What about Source + Script to install all auto.

[@ntisithoj]

This was an awesome tutorial... and it appears to have worked flawlessly for some, but Resolve only generates an "unsupported GPU processing mode" error, even though I added "--nvidia" to the Fedotra 37 creation command. "nvidia-smi" work ok, and no errors in the log, but in the resolve configuration, under "Memory and GPU", there is no GPU listed :/

[@MichaelNROH]

I might have found a solution, but need to backtrace my steps. You can follow the progress on my Discord / Matrix

[@ntisithoj]

Thanks, but FYI, you invitation link in your about page is invalid :/ Following on Element/matrix, but prefer Discord as Element keeps demanding validation from another device for some reason, which I do not have.

[@HubDubs]

So I've managed to get Resolve up and running, I can preview and add clips and it detects my GPU (AMD). But the timeline UI is completely blank, everything else works except the timeline. I've tried both the stable Resolve 18 and beta 19 with the same issue. Using Plasma 6 on Fedora 40. Any ideas? Thanks.

[@protossss]

Hi did you resolve this issue? Same for me. Timeline is not visible.

[@HubDubs]

@@protossss No :(

[@ivandj707]

I'm on W 10 but thinking about switching to Linux. Would the simplest solution for me be to first install Fedora 37 as the operating system and thus simplify the installation of DaVinci Resolve? That is, the only thing that matters to me is that I have a linux distro that works stably with DaVinci.

[@MichaelNROH]

The current version of Fedora is 40. Generally speaking, with distrobox it doesn't matter if you install Ubuntu, Fedora or something else. Just pick the one that looks the nicest. I've pinned a comment with some additional information

[@ivandj707]

@@MichaelNROH Thank you.

[@AlanDike]

how well does this work when you start mixing distros.. like debian and fedora.. does it download a full kernel, etc because they're different?

[@MichaelNROH]

What it does is to basically download each Distro without graphical dependencies or applications. It's sort of like a core version whereas you see some differences in packaging tools, default package managers and their collection of different tools. E.g. some distros ship with secure Linux, others don't

[@AlanDike]

@@MichaelNROH fair enough.. I may have to give this a shot.. I have no interest in editing videos, but hey, why not. I have gimp installed and almost never use it.. but if I start streaming or doing CISSP study type videos like I was considering this year.. it might be worth having it.. Appreciate the tips.

[@JahidulIslam]

​@@AlanDike If you have Nvidia GPU, you can also build Davinci Resolve flatpak. I am using the flatpak version.

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

Good day Michael, what system are you running on your pc? If you run fedora directly is the container needed? I am a windows user with grave concernes about coming developments and privacy when it comes to windows. I do not know the first or last thing about linux and there major inconsistencies when you use the term Linux and DaVinci Resolve together... Sorry for the late reply, your video is more than a year old but I am now being forced to look into this option as it seems windows is set to infringe on it's users privacy in a few months time. Thank you.

[@MichaelNROH]

I run Fedora 40 currently. The reason on why I find the container approach much better than a native install is, because if a dependency gets updated, it will break the installation unless you manually fix it again. On Fedora 38, some of them got updated quite frequently, which meant manual fixing like every other week. There is also another advantage to Distrobox, as you can use the Linux version that Resolve itself wants to use (Rocky OS). Their version is very outdated though, which is why I went for Fedora instead

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

@@MichaelNROH Good day, Thank you kindly for the reply, this does make sense, I was just wondering what version/ flavour you were running and then obviously we know what container you were using. Does the container require updates? And, could they potentially "break" an install? I am a total noob to linux so please do forgive my possibly idiotic question.... Thank you.

[@SimiVideoCreator]

Whenever I install any distro using distrobox create It ends up giving me: "bash: exec: startx: not found" when trying to enter... Anyone know what I can do?

[@pimpatterson]

install boxbuddy for a more gui friendly approach but still needs command line for initial install

[@joshbarton]

Distrobox aside have you had any issues getting Resolve to work in Linux with a Radeon card? I have 6950xt moving over from a 2080S. None of my media will import into Resolve. If it does import the clips are blank and only load an audio track on the timeline. I am using the free version and I've discovered the codecs are very limited. Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many times I try to convert it to a listed supported codec it does this exact same thing when I import the video files into the software. The specifications on gaining all the codecs on Linux state you need the Studio version and an nVidia card so I just want to verify if you'd had any issues before I drop $300.00 on the Studio version only to find out it still doesnt work with my Radeon card.

[@MichaelNROH]

The problem with Resolve, especially on Linux is it's focus on professionals like editors in movie studios, etc. Industy standards for web formats like the H.264 video codec or AAC for audio just won't work with the free version (the latter one not at all), so you got to treat it more professionally. I myself use the Studio Edition with a Fedora 39 distrobox container for a dependecy consistency and record my videos with H.264 (mkv) and PCM as the codec

[@AlexeyRiched]

how to get rid of the need to re-encode mp4 files for video to work in the Linux version of Davinci Resolve?

[@MichaelNROH]

Don't record with AAC but with the PCM audio codec and buy the Studio edition. That's the most reliable but also expensive way to do it. There are plugins, however they also often cost money.

[@MestredosMagos-dj1ym]

Mine shows this error: "Do you agree to the terms and conditions of this license? (y/n): y Error: Installer failed Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory "

[@MichaelNROH]

This happens because you probably didn't use sudo like mentioned

[@pineofwired]

hey! thank you so much for this tutorial, i followed it and davinci resolve now works! however.. when i try to ''distrobox-export --app /opt/resolve/bin/resolve'' it says ''Application /opt/resolve/bin/resolve successfully exported.'' but clicking that app that just formed seems to load for a bit and then nothing appears. launching through terminal works again though. any thoughts?

[@MichaelNROH]

I've had two things happen in the past. 1. The link did not reference distrobox whatsoever (check exec=... in the resolve link in ~/.local/applications/) and I needed to export it again. 2. For some reason, the link expects the /opt/resolve directory on the host, so just create it with sudo and leave it empty. Usually this happens automatically, but not always

[@rjlarussa4136]

I was wondering if you could answer a quick question. This setup works great, but Davinci can't seem to open my lut folder. I'm wondering if it works on yours? Do you know the path to where luts are stored inside the container? I can't seem to find the path

[@rjlarussa4136]

I managed to find it in the standard resolve path, just the hidden ".LUT" folder was missing. I created it and dropped my luts in. It seems to somehow create the default resolve luts on startup so mine are duplicated, as I have all my standard resolve luts in a subfolder. Weird behavior but it seems to work!

[@stonedcodingtom9097]

Nice vid! So Can I use Fedora for this if I have nvidia?

[@MichaelNROH]

Generally yes, but I haven't tried it for year or so. I posted the steps on my Discord under the Free Stuff category

[@stonedcodingtom9097]

@@MichaelNROH Thx!

[@stonedcodingtom9097]

It's working! Discord tips were very useful. I changed Distrobox to Fedora 39 and then installed all the packages including nvidia drivers. Thanks a lot!

[@gerrit4204]

Hey I've done the requirement installing step a couple of times but now I get this error: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb. /tmp/appimage_extracted_22f0777ff49985d4de01110e70dd01e7/AppRun: line 346: 116949 Aborted (core dumped) "${CURRENT_DIR}/installer" "${CURRENT_DIR}" "$@"

[@DHotdog85]

The post by @Afif87123, farther up in the comments section, ended up being the fix for me: Make sure you have xhost installed on the host system. Then in a terminal, on the host system, enter the following two commands: xhost +si:localuser:$USER xhost +si:localuser:root Try installing DaVinci Resolve in the container, again. It should work, now. Seems as though it was a permissions issue that was preventing the container system from being able to access the display server on the host system.

[@zbirdman777]

Does this work on the steam deck under desktop mode?

[@MichaelNROH]

Why not? It should just behave the same.

[@JahidulIslam]

Davinci Resolve recommends Nvidia GPU. Steam Deck has AMD GPU. So you need to something inside container to make it run with AMD GPU I guess.

[@zbirdman777]

I didn't initially have luck installing resolve this way. I will give it another try. Worst case I have my old desktop running fedora with Resolve installed

[@clocked0]

I am honestly amazed at how far this concept and implementation has evolved since Bedrock Linux

[@monochrome_linux]

exactly. Bedrock was such a novelty, but now everyone can get the same feature. No one seems to use or make content of Bedrock any more i think, havent seen one in quite a while

[@clocked0]

@@monochrome_linux In fairness it also hasn't had a new release in quite a while. 0.7 Poki has been out for a couple years now