Davinci Resolve on Ubuntu 24.04 - Old way (see description)

*UPDATE*

Ubuntu 24.04 has changes to system libraries that cause Davinci Resolve to not work out of the box. But fear not, this video will not only show you how to fix it, it will even show you how to find the fix yourself, so that if future versions break differently you'll be able to fix them as well.

In this video we're downloading packages from the Ubuntu package repository. The packages we downloaded:

00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Download Davinci Resolve
01:28 - Install Davinci Resolve
02:04 - Overcoming the Missing packages error
02:59 - Can't run: undefined symbol
03:33 - Why this error is happening
04:33 - Downloading the correct version: libpango
05:59 - Extracting the library from the package
06:48 - Running DR with the library we downloaded
07:23 - Downloading libpangft2
08:00 - Downloading libpangocairo
08:46 - Downloading libgdk-pixbuf-2.0
09:55 - Running with the icon
10:58 - Future proofing the solution

[francoismessage]

I've been fiddling with distroboxes and other nonsenses that didn't work at all for hours, and now I find this video. This is not only clear and useful, it's also very informative about how DVR actually works. Thank you so much.

[LarryCarlin]

Brilliant. Takes a lot of effort to put a video like this together. These steps worked with Linux Mint 22 (obviously). I'll move over to your new site and check when you post "the better way". Thanks for all the work.

[ScorgeRudess]

You are amazing, thanks! you've just won a subscriber from México :D sadly on opnening, I get a "OpenGL initialize error" but thats a problem for another story xD running a RTX 2060SUPER.. Update: Solved: it was the secure boot, we need to sign the MOK of the GPU driver, or turn off the secure boot, I did sign it and voila :D

[brightsideofmaths]

Thank you very much :) I appreciated that you have shown every single package and where to download them!

[yenaurapourtoulmonde]

Used your advice on my newly updated Linux Mint 23.0.
DVR started with the beach ball and after a few seconds... nothing.
Absolutely perfect. Thumbs up. You're a genius🪔. I would NEVER have been able to solve this alone... Thank you so much. 👋💪🎥🎬

[linxous]

thanks so much for your video on fixing library dependencies in Davinci Resolve! I've been using Linux Mint 22 as my editing platform, and it was just what I needed to get things working smoothly. Really appreciate it

[bleeptrack]

Extremely helpful! Thanks a lot for the walkthrough!

[PhilippKessler]

Thanks a lot. It worked. A note to nVidia users: DaVinci Resolve 19 requires nVidia drivers 550+ which are not officially available on Ubuntu yet. Installing drivers that are yet untested by Canonical is discouraged from what I read. I reinstalled DaVinci 18.6.6 and re-used this guide to work around the library issue. Works like a charm.

[sshamsi]

Thank you for the in-depth explanation alongside the solution, got everything running!

[Dr.LinuxPresents]

Perfect for my new install of Linux Mint 22!! Great walk through.

[cesarkero]

Good job. For an amateur in linux folders and libraries, this was followable and very well explained. It works :-)

[DougLopes]

6 months later and the problem hasn't being fixed yet. I lost 2 days installing back PopOs just to realize that its broken there too.

[aryansamadaee]

OUTSTANDING! Great video and great explanations. it works!

[arduinoatolyem]

Thank you so much man it just wouldn't work i tried all troubleshooting methods but following your video fixed it!

[AwesomeBlackDude]

I'm wondering if I can install the newest DR 19 PB5?

[kovreee]

I do everything as follows, but when I try to run the command at 7:20, for some reason it still only shows the libpango file and not libpangotf. What could be the problem?

[lescineastesfousproduction]

Thanks a lot for this great video ! It works ! Just warning, /tmp/dr/files was not created by default.

[VFWPost]

Thank you for a very easy resolution to installing Davinci on Ubuntu! Much appreciated!

[Nichflow-jsgy]

Perfect, Simple explanation to the point... Thank Man the best!💥💥💥💥💥

[DuncansWildEscapes]

wow thanks. I was bashing my head against wall trying to figure this out. Corrupted my whole system multiple times trying to use chatGPT to figure it out. Thank you!