I'm trying to install DaVinci Resolve on my Arch Linux system, but I'm running into issues since some required libraries are missing from pacman. I've followed some tutorials, yet it seems like there are complications with the installation. Does anyone have a solution or workarounds for getting DaVinci to run on Arch?
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DaVinci Resolve is officially supported only on Rocky Linux, so trying to get it to work on other distros can be hit or miss. You really need to provide more specifics on what libraries are missing, though. If you want to run it outside of Rocky, consider using a Docker container. There's a GitHub project called 'resolve' that wraps DaVinci in a Rocky userland, which can help. Just so you know, you'll need an NVIDIA graphics card for this to work efficiently since support for Intel and AMD is pretty limited in Linux! Also, get familiar with ffmpeg, since the Linux version doesn’t handle H.264 footage well like the Windows or Mac versions do.
I have an NVIDIA GTX 1650, and I actually went to the Blackmagic Design website to download the Linux zip file of Resolve. I followed that up by running 'git clone' with the link from the Arch Wiki. When I put the downloaded zip file into the created folder and tried to build the package, I kept running into issues with missing Qt5 libraries and others that pacman can't install. Can you help me solve this problem?