It might also need some GPU libraries which are complex.So it will need classic confinement for now I expect?.Resolve makes heavy use of GPU acceleration and won’t start without it.TL DR: Resolve is great software but installing through any means other than the Blackmagic-produced CentOS 7.3 ISO that they’ll support the paid version on just leads to terrible pain. Since I think it’s a real boon for desktop Linux to have this available (honestly nothing else in its class exists on the desktop), I do think that having a Snap available might help ease this and stop it becoming a potential problem.
I can understand the devs’ position completely but my fear is that if they get tired of producing the free version for Linux they could just end support entirely and stop publishing it in future. Sure, this is a proprietary application that they sell to make money but it worries me that the Linux support that they offer for the free version essentially boils down to a single massive thread on their forum where the developers give the impression that they simply haven’t got the time to resolve ha problems for all of the Linux users installing the free version on many different distros they don’t officially support.
I also like the idea of snapping Resolve to take some load off the developers. This is still a messy process and I haven’t tested it on Ubuntu 20.04 yet but I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t work there yet. run file from Blackmagic Design and builds a deb package from it which can then be installed. There is a script available called makeresolvedeb which takes the CentOS. Even worse, the only officially supported version of CentOS is still 7.3 while fully updating a CentOS 7 system today will bring you to 7.8.ĭespite this, Resolve can be installed on Ubuntu with some work. It’s designed as a professional video editor and post-production suite so the team seem quite happy to support only CentOS which seems to be commonly used in studio VFX and post-production pipelines.
It supports Linux natively, but is a monolithic proprietary application which expects certain things to be true of the system it’s being installed on. If you try and install it in its current distributed form you will see what I mean. Resolve is basically the perfect candidate for a Snap. Resolve is a studio-class free video/audio editor and currently seems to be the industry-standard colour grading suite. But I think it’d be a worthwhile effort to try. To Snap something like this might require some thought about Snap itself, specifically handling apps that rely on GPU compute. It also will likely need classic confinement (at least until there are stable OpenCL/CUDA plugs available) as it relies heavily on GPU acceleration (and won’t even start without it).
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