Installing Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio on OpenSuse Tumbleweed

Last tested in June 2025 with DaVinci Resolve v20.0. Previously also worked with v19 releases.

• Download the Linux install zip file from https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion

• Extract the contents of the zip file you downloaded

unzip DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.0_Linux.zip

• Install the package, ignoring the whether all of the prerequisite packages are installed

cd DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.0_Linux
SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ./DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.0_Linux.run

• Download fedora’s libgdk rpm (see: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/davinci-resolve-18-5-not-working-on-opensuse-tumbleweed/167175/14)

curl -O https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/38/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/g/gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.10-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm

• Extract the contents of the rpm file you downloaded

rpm2cpio ./gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.10-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

• Copy the library files into DaVinci Resolve’s library folder

cd usr/lib64/
sudo cp -vr * /opt/resolve/libs/

Make a symbolic link to the system’s OpenCL library in DaVinci Resolve’s library folder

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/ocl-icd/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0 /opt/resolve/libs/libOpenCL.so.1

• Copy the system’s libglib libraries into DaVinci Resolve’s library folder

sudo cp -va /lib64/libglib-2.0.* /opt/resolve/libs/

Now DaVinci Resolve will startup and work as expected.