Davinci Resolve | Manjaro Linux 2025

In this video I go over how to get Davinci Resolve to launch on Manjaro Linux and how I found the right command to get it to launch. I created the whole video on my Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503RM_GA503RM. This includes BRAW 6k, Inplace encoding to ProRes & DnxHR, along with H.265. I think I pushed it rather hard overall. This included using Magic Mask to set up myself on the bottom left corner, along with AI noise removal, and with extending the music to a longer length. If you are on AMD/Intel graphics and Davinci Resolve still does not launch you may need to make sure OpenCL is installed and working. On NVIDIA based graphics you need to have CUDA installed or Davinci Resolve will not work. If you are using the FREE version of Davinci Resolve hardware decoded graphics like H.264/H.265/AV1 will NOT work and you will have to re-encode it into a format that will work such as ProRes, or DnxHR. You can use Shotcut for that or an FFMPEG command. Either or AAC does NOT work inside Davinci Resolve (or Studio) and you will have to use uncompressed audio for that. I will have a follow up video expressing my feelings on editing everything up. Just as an overall explanation though. I am pleased at what I was able to do, and how smooth it did overall feel. OS: Manjaro Linux CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS with Radeon Graphics GPU: NVIDIA 3060 laptop GPU RAM: 16GB Notes: Magic mask isn't perfect, but seeing how long it had to search I think it did a rather good job Also having only 16GB of ram I had to do some extra encoding to get the magic mask in place, along with the logo due to the fact the laptop DIDN'T like the EXR Blender files lol. Required library | libxcrypt-compat Manjaro Terminal launch command: LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so" /opt/resolve/bin/resolve Terminal launch command with NVIDIA graphics on a laptop | Desktop remove prime-run LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so" prime-run /opt/resolve/bin/resolve To avoid needing terminal you can replace the outdated libraries with this sudo cp /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so /opt/resolve/libs sudo cp /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /opt/resolve/libs sudo cp /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /opt/resolve/libs On a laptop you may still NEED to set it to prime-run. To do this, right click the launch icon, go into properties then to the "application" tab. Add in the "Environment variables" prime-run UBUNTU install! If you get an error on install this should help resolve it. sudo apt install libapr1 libaprutil1 libglib2.0-0 pipewire-alsa sudo libasound2t64 (For separate install choices you will probably have to choose from. If you add this with the others, they WON'T install) Then run this command to skip the package checks! sudo SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ./DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_19.0_Linux.run -i -y Terminal launch command: LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0" /opt/resolve/bin/resolve Terminal launch command with NVIDIA graphics on a laptop | If using Prime for gfx swap LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0" prime-run /opt/resolve/bin/resolve To avoid needing terminal you can replace the outdated libraries with this sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 /opt/resolve/libs/ sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /opt/resolve/libs/ sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 /opt/resolve/libs/ On a laptop you may still NEED to set it to prime-run. To do this, right click the launch icon, go into properties then to the "application" tab. Add in the "Environment variables" prime-run Website where I found the commands: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/907