Davinci Resolve 20 on Fedora 43 and a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen13
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Davinci Resolve 20 on Fedora 43

If you've ever had to install Resolve on Linux, you have probably experienced the pain at trying to do so. The "correct" way, which is to use the installer and the popups it creates, does not work. Not even on Rocky Linux, of which it reportedly supports (I suspect it's a specific version).
There is also davincibox, which I use on my Debian Trixie PC (AMD), but that is overkill in this case.

As of 26/03/2026, Davinci Resolve v20.3.2 build 9 installs very "easily" on Fedora 20 (Plasma) on a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen13 with an Intel iGPU.

Installation

Install packages via dnf 


$ sudo dnf install intel-compute-runtime apr apr-utils libxcrypt-compat

Unzip the downloaded installer and change directory to it, then follow the installer after first running: 


$ SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ./DaVinci_Resolve_20.3.2_Linux.run

Once the installer completes, return to the terminal to force resolve to use system libs over some of its bundled ones, and run: 


$ cd /opt/resolve/
$ mkdir oldlibs/
$ mv libs/libg* oldlibs/
$ mv oldlibs/libgvc.sc libs/
$ mv oldlibs/libgvcodec.so libs/
$ mv oldlibs/libgupdetect.so libs/

I'm sure theres some way for those last 4 lines to be 1, but, eh...

That's Davinci Resolve installed! Almost.

It's highly likely you'll have a hiDPI screen, so when you run resolve the UI elements and text will be tiny. If it isn't you can skip this next step.

Running Resolve

Either edit the desktop icon or from the commandline run resolve with 

QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
prepending the command, e.g. 

$ QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 /opt/resolve/bin/resolve

End

Why Davinci have such a poor way of distributing its Resolve Linux build in this day and age is beyond me, but anyway, it works in the few ways i've used it on this new system, so far.

Extensive...