This project aims to provide a ready-to-go container with all of the needed dependencies to install and run DaVinci Resolve on Linux, based on information compiled by bluesabre in his GitHub Gist. This is primarily intended for users of image-based systems such as Fedora Silverblue, but can be used on any Linux distro that distrobox is available on.
I've only been able to test this setup with an AMD RX 6600XT GPU. NVIDIA cards, Intel cards, and other generations of AMD cards are completely untested. See #21
Davincibox has not been tested with DaVinci Resolve Studio. See #26
You will need distrobox or toolbox. Distrobox is highly recommended for ease of use.
If using an Nvidia GPU, you will also need the nvidia-container-runtime package installed to your system.
You will also need the latest release of DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic's website
If you're less comfortable in the CLI, I recommend using the setup.sh script from this repository to help simplify the setup process, but ultimately use of the CLI is currently a requirement.
Open a terminal, then run chmod +x /path/to/setup.sh
Then, /path/to/setup.sh /path/to/DaVinci_Resolve_versionnumber_Linux.run
If you're more comfortable in a GUI:
If you're using GNOME, open Files and navigate to where you downloaded the script to. In the example below, the script is in the same folder that I extracted the DaVinci Resolve download to. I recommend you do the same for ease of use, as the rest of the instructions will assume you have done so.
Right-click, and select Properties.
Then, make sure "Executable as Program" is toggled on.
Right-click on an empty spot in the folder. You should see either "Open in Console" as in the screenshot, or "Open in Terminal." Either will be fine.
In the newly-opened terminal window, enter the command below. Replace 'version' with the version of DaVinci Resolve that you are installing (see screenshot for example):
./setup.sh ./DaVinci_Resolve_version_Linux.run
Then, follow any further prompts in the installation script.
First, get davincibox set up.
Distrobox:
distrobox create -i ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox:latest -n davincibox
distrobox enter davincibox
Toolbox:
toolbox create -i ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox:latest -c davincibox
toolbox enter davincibox
Then, run setup-davinci /path/to/DaVinci_Resolve_version_Linux.run distrobox/toolbox from within the container
e.g.
Distrobox:
distrobox enter davincibox -- setup-davinci /path/to/DaVinci_Resolve_version_Linux.run distrobox
Toolbox:
toolbox run --container davincibox setup-davinci /path/to/DaVinci_Resolve_version_Linux.run toolbox
The suffix at the end is for the add-davinci-launcher script. If omitted, setup will still run, but adding the launcher to your application menu won't work.
You can still run add-davinci-launcher separately, as either add-davinci-launcher distrobox or add-davinci-launcher toolbox, depending on what you're using.
Upgrading requires re-creating the davincibox container with the newest version of the image.
If a new version of davincibox is available and you want to upgrade, you can do so manually or with setup.sh.
Run setup.sh upgrade, then follow the installation steps above.
First, run podman image pull ghcr.io/zelikos/davincibox:latest
Then, follow the Uninstallation section below and go through manual setup again.
Run ./setup.sh remove, or
Distrobox:
# If you are upgrading, you can avoid this line
distrobox enter davincibox -- add-davinci-launcher remove
distrobox stop davincibox
distrobox rm davincibox
Toolbox:
# If you are upgrading, you can avoid this line
toolbox run --container davincibox add-davinci-launcher remove
podman container stop davincibox
toolbox rm davincibox
Sean Davis, AKA bluesabre
- For putting together this Gist; davincibox's Containerfile and setup scripts are heavily based on that information
Jorge Castro and Universal Blue
- Jorge's blog post about declaring distroboxes planted the seed for davincibox to become a thing
- Pretty much everything on the GitHub CI part of this is based on uBlue's Boxkit