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# Davinci Resolve Workstation

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I do my editing on Davinci Resolve. Since I am trying to get editing and gaming
off of Windows, I created a Davinci Resolve workstation that is based on Rocky
Linux 8, the OS Davinci officially supports. While Davinci can be installed on
other distros, it doesn't work on my [[distro of choice|alpine linux]], thus
might as well create a dedicated VM for it. Since my [[workstation]] uses
Proxmox, I can easily use different distros.

This guide thus documents my installation process.

## 1) Install Rocky Linux 8.6

You can download the [BlackMagic's
ISO](https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinci-Resolve-Linux-RockyLinux_8.6.iso)
for easier installation

* Upgrade to latest packages
```
sudo dnf update
```
* Enable networking

By default, wired networking is not automatically turned on.

## 2) Install `amdgpu-pro`

* Remove `nomodeset` and `rdblacklist=nouveau` in grub config in
`/etc/default/grub` and `/boot/grub2/grubenv`

```
sudo dnf install http://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.3/rhel/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.3.60300-1.el8.noarch.rpm
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=workstation --vulkan=pro --opencl=rocr
```

* Add user to `video` and `render` group:
```
sudo usermod -a -G render
sudo usermod -a -G video
```

## 3) Install Davince Resolve Studio 19

* Install `xcb-util-cursor`:
```
sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install xcb-util-cursor
```

* Download Davinci Resolve Studio 19 by going to [support
center](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion),
clicking the desired version, and finally `Downlod only`
* Extract and run the installer
* Apply crack (confirmed working with version 19.1.2)
```
sudo perl -pi -e 's/\x00\x85\xc0\x74\x7b\xe8/\x00\x85\xc0\xEB\x7b\xe8/g' /opt/resolve/bin/resolve
```

## 4) Install `awesome` window manager

I only care for tiling window managers. Unfortunately, my manager of choice
`awesome` is not available on Rocky Linux 8. I thus have to compile it myself,
which involces compiling its build dependencies.

Compiling awesome on Rocky Linux 8.10 requires the following dependencies (in order of build):
* lua
* lua-markdown
* lua-lgi
* lua-filesystem
* lua-ldoc
* lua-penlight
* xapian-xire
* doxygen (note: this ought to be fc29 version)
* libxdg-basedir
* xcb-util
* xcb-util-wm
* xcb-util-keysymx
* xorg-x11-util-macros
* xcb-util-xrm
* libxkb
* xcb-util-image
* xcb-util-renderutil

To build these, you have to go through various iterations of fetching
source RPMs from [fedora 28 src repo](https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/source/tree/Packages),
installing the builddeps and finally rebuilding using `rpbbuild`. Thus,
for lua, you would:
```
wget https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/source/tree/Packages/l/lua-5.3.4-10.fc28.src.rpm
sudo dnf builddep lua-*.src.rpm --nobest --refresh
rpmbuild --rebuild lua-.src.rpm
```

To facilitate installing the built dependencies, you can use `createrepo` to
create a repo in `/home/user/rpmbuild` and pointing a new dnf repo to this
folder.

Specific notes:
* doxygen src rpm should come Fedora 29
* lua-ldoc and lua-penlight depend on each other, thus you will need to
temporarily activate the fc28 repo by adding this in
`/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo`
```
[fedora]
name=Fedora 28 - x86_64
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
```
Make sure to disable it after getting lua-ldoc or lua-penlight built.

After building all of your dependencies, clean-up everything by rolling back to
the transaction before you started installing build dependencies. Use `dnf
history info <transaction no>` to find that number and then `dnf history
rollback <transaction no>`

Once everything is rolledback, you can install awesome and *just* it's runtime
dependencies, and then refer to  archlinux's
[awesome-gnome](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=awesome-gnome)
package or the [wiki article it is based
on](http://web.archive.org/web/20160205182002/http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome)
to integrate awesome in gnome.

## 5) Install git-annex standalone

I use git-annex to store my footage. Indeed, there isn't a git-annex package, but it is easy to install git-annex
standalone by following [upstream's guide](https://git-annex.branchable.com/install/rpm_standalone/)

## Other options

I mentionned above that there were other ways to install Davinci on Linux
without having to use Rocky Linux. Here are a few:
* [via distrobox](https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox)
* [on debian](https://github.com/flolu/davinci-resolve-linux)
* [on arch](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DaVinci_Resolve)
* [on fedora](https://github.com/H3rz3n/How-install-DaVinci-Resolve-in-Fedora-Linux)