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!

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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? :)

[@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!!!!

[@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.

[@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

[@raygan]

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

[@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.

[@SunCrushr]

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

[@dexgaming6394]

Congrats, 10k subs!

[@MichaelNROH]

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

[@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...

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!!!!!

[@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'

[@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)

[@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.

[@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

[@fabienmargerie6815]

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

[@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

[@df0rce]

Super cool! Highly appreciated.

[@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

[@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.

[@zetetic-astronomer]

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

[@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)

[@gungun974]

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

[@MichaelNROH]

Happy to help

[@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!

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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...

[@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.

[@sNiksnakYT]

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

[@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.

[@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! :)

[@pimpatterson]

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

[@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.

[@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👍

[@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.

[@SportezMemes]

i did that but it doesnt open , it looks like it has opend on the dash but there is no display or anything and then it closes

[@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.

[@GreenScreenExplorer]

This is awesome, Thank you for sharing

[@jamescampbell6728]

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

[@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.

[@cannibalholiday]

I'm sooooo close. All dependencies met, but I can't do the install because it can't go online to authorize it. Apparently the container doesn't support my ethernet out of the box, and I'm stumbling over what to do to get it working.

[@douglasbuchanan2973]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@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]

[@dy2c]

thank you so much man!

[@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?

[@tothespace2122]

I don't think containerization solves any problems for people who have problems with AMD drivers...

[@JahidulIslam]

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

[@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?

[@Flames_Spirit]

thankyou so muxh ❣

[@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

[@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 ?

[@Chris-el8is]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@Zadian.]

I followed all the instructions, but I wasnt able to see my timeline at all, it was just a blank panel. Any ideas?

[@tankfire20]

I am trying to use Davinci resolve but I just found out it does not work on my distribution. Why do I have to make a virtual machine of a different linux distro just to make this program work It's all Linux right? Why is there no compatibility, always missing dependencies, and random bugs that require me to be super wizard log file reader to figure out.

[@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.

[@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)

[@dummag4126]

Are you shure there isn't difference in prestazioni respect an installation directly on rockylinux without container?

[@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

[@Tikkakoski]

Fucking hell. I'm a total novice to Linux and I need to figure all this crap when I all I want to do is do some basic video editing. I'm not a frigging programmer. I work on construction from 9-5. I don't have time to become a space wizard to do simple editing. This is what makes me hate I became a Linux user in the first place. Where do I even turn for help in case I need it?

[@NeverMind353]

In case this helps anybody in the future, for simple editing I would turn to natively supported software like ShotCut. It's much simpler but probably what you need

[@Bits4you]

appreciate this video. Thank you

[@ОгнянДимитров-с4г]

I did everything according to your instructions and some additional reading and removing old libraries and Davinci finally starts but when I go to Memory and GPU section in preferences there is no opencl option available. I'm out of solutions at the moment so any help will be much appreciated. P.S. The version I have is DR 19 public beta and my gfx card is ASUS Radeon RX580 8gb. I've installed rocm-opencl as well.

[@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.

[@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

[@sasiandk]

Great video, very helpfull for me. 😀

[@Seb_O]

gpu initialization failed

[@dewanata_armoon]

ist the best way to learn, and tinker without break the the host dependency

[@yuribrandi3203]

I got davinci working on my Fedora 38 some time ago without many problems (Although I never managed to make it working with my previous rx 580 even with rocm-opencl and distrobox), however, for some reason, anything i import is just black and won't play, both audio and video file. And yes, I do convert them to a supported format. I can´t find anything regarding this problem :/ Edit: just tried after two weeks and it's now working perfectly! So maybe some dependencies were causing issues. So yeah, success on Fedora 38.

[@larsradtke4097]

you need the 7GB Cuda install...

[@yuribrandi3203]

@@larsradtke4097 I'm on AMD though...

[@AlanDike]

@@yuribrandi3203 which display server are you using? I know obs had issues with blank screens in wayland for a while... could be worth a try to switch to a different display manager like x (if you're not already there) and give it another shot

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm on Wayland, so I don't think that that's the issue. It might be related to double opencl-packages since some versions of mesa-opencl manage to open it, but not play any videos. If both rocm and mesa-opencl are installed, they might be conflicting.

[@larsradtke4097]

@@MichaelNROH also, on openSUSE packman repositorty's "dirty codecs" were required on my install..

[@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

[@wolfisraging]

classic linux solution for any problem always contains: 6:29 "Until we get error like this"

[@mrgor4505]

can't install any packages: user is not in the sudoers file....

[@creatfunandunique]

hi I have tried Av1 but I found out that quality was reduced are there any other codec or something so the quality doesn't decrease too large and size doesnt also become big I have also tried codec like h264 but the file is not opened by davinci ........ My problem is Most of the time i got mp4 files and have to convert to mov using xdcam hd 422 which make file 5-6 times larger as compared to mp4 file and it makes my davinci slow So are there any other method so size doesnt increase too much and quality doesn't decrease

[@johnnycripplestar5167]

Well I can't find it in opt and sudo says something about the operationg getting aborted and core-dumped

[@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

[@nikospace4355]

Hey, so I have everything installed, but im getting an error saying that it couldn't initialize OpenGL, despite me having the Nvidia drivers installed. Do you have any fix for this?

[@JahidulIslam]

You can build flatpak for Davinci Resolve also. I am using flatpak.

[@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

[@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

[@boncboncki89]

Yup, it all nice but one thing - I cant export anything - still i had problem with codecs - i miss something?

[@MichaelNROH]

Most codecs are not available on Linux and MacOS due to Licensing costs. If you have the paid Studio version you get access to more, though some are still restricted to NVIDIA for some reason.

[@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.

[@phamquangminh8391]

Is the audio problem of Davinci Resolve still exist on distrobox?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!