Beginner Friendly Way to Install Affinity APPS | Debian | Fedora | Arch | Updated!
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github.com/ryzendew/AffinityOnLinux Scripts where removed from the main repo so use this instead. Unless you want to use the written guide.
@@Mattscreative now, can anyone make a flatpak to install it easier?
@@i.a.m2413 i fixed that
I'm very happy to this video. Many thanks. The only drawback is that the pressure sensitivity of my Huion is not registered in Affinity. But that's not the script's fault.
If your Canvas is Flickering on Linux Mint, go into the settings make sure Auto Install/Update DXVK on Prefix is UNCHECKED. Strangely enough, it was greyed out for me at first. By enabling the option below it to update DXVK-NVAPI, restarting Affinity, then going back to the settings, it was no longer greyed out, and was able to uncheck it.
@@JamesLee this was not made for linux mint only modern distros with explicit sync and xwayland 24.1+ with proper mesa and nvidia drivers 565 ans mesa 24.4
@@Mattscreative Should have mentioned, I followed your guide for manual installation on the github
It’s not a you thing its mint being so far behind thats all.
@@Mattscreative gotcha, thanks for putting all this together man, helped a tonne 🤜
I'm a huge fan, you inspired me to find Adobe alternatives
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I spent, maybe, 3-ish hours trying to understand wine and follow a different step by step guide on building the wine fork and setting up a prefix, only for Affinity to kinda load and then crash without any clear indication on where I went wrong. I got close, but it would have been impossible for me to debug it.
This just worked, and all I had to do was make sure p7zip and jq were installed first.
Ok, this is what I've been waiting for for years.... bye bye microsoft
**edit**
I'm not against using terminal or "writing code" :D, I just wanted a stable version and a fairly simple process to install affinity.
WOOT
Did it work?
It's not even hard cm 🤡
This is my next thing to do setting up Fedora tomorrow. I've owned the programs on Windows for awhile. You rock!
@@saberspecter twig rocks but I just help best I can
@@Mattscreative Twig indeed rocks! I'm still grateful for finding the video. So you think we can convince Canva to make this native after they bought Affinity?
anything is possible, if enough people follow suit
Managed to get the entire Affinity Suite including the Beta builds to run on Linux Mint and OpenMandriva with the Lutris method. There are of course bugs like settings resetting on relaunch and and a few performance hiccups, but I am surprised by how much of the software actually just works with this method while being far easier to install compared to older methods running through the terminal that never worked for me in the past.
Still needs work, but it is honestly very close to running just as well as it does on Windows. I hope this project gets more attention so it has the opportunity to iron out the bugs. This is the closest Linux has gotten to actually having a modern professional image editing suite of software able to run on the OS that is also up to date.
it worked flawlessly, thanks a lot for sharing it it with us!
@@koruninn I rewrote the repo also so should be more user friendly
@@Mattscreative as a fairly new linux user i had no problems whatsoever, now i can finally use nobara as my only os
What distro were you installing it in? I'm using Mint and it didn't work for me but perhaps knowing the distro where it works flawlessly will give me a clue of a way to make it work. I'm wondering if a Docker container might be the answer.
@@daveindezmenez i'm using nobara 40
great job for a slightly new Linux user, keep going
Are you the new Linux user? cause i am not and been doing this for 26 years now but if it helped i am very glad
Ok, awesome. This worked well enough. Since affinity was bought by canva, there won't be a blind rage against Linux anymore.
But there's still a giant problem" pressure sensitivity. I know it's a wine problem, but man, it'd be great to draw in affinity, in Linux. Plus this install doesn't let you use the bitmap brushes. Vector brushes work, though.
Switched to Arch around half a year ago after a hackening. Wish this video would have already existed back then. But damn am I happy it does now. Will immediately jump out of bed and give it a try.
Wow! I hope this continues to improve, get easier, and receive updates so that it can be relied upon in production!
That's the plan!
Thanks! This one is even better than your last video on the subject. I'm going to try it in my Linux Mint installation when I can. I'll try to leave a comment here if it works.
Twig is amazing
Did it work?! I'm also running Mint.
@@sb_1389 I haven't gotten the chance to try it yet. I might have some time next week to give it a shot.
I gave it a shot but it didn't ultimately work for me on Linux Mint. I installed the dependencies from the github site first and then ran the command to paste in for Affinity Photo. It ran through the whole thing and various errors popped up along the way which I'm not informed enough to know what to do about. (I am very much a beginner.) In case there is anybody knowledgeable enough to troubleshoot I copied and pasted what happened in the Terminal into a text file. So for now, not being a terminal warrior and not knowing the ins and outs of all this I'm stuck. But I do appreciate all the effort that went into this project and hopefully can try again in the future when more has been figured out.
I'll be looking for future videos about this to see if some of the hitches have been figured out. In the meantime I do have VirtualBox installed on my system and Windows installed within it and may just go ahead and install the suite that way. It's somewhat more awkward to run this software that way but at least it should work without issues.
Thank you Bro, this does the trick for me. Finally it worked now, the last Video Versions doesn't run. Finally Affinity Runs Thank you my friend.
Glad I could help
It worked! Thank you Sir!
You're welcome!
really needed to see this video currently torn between switching to linux from windows and seeing this is just pushing more to switch if i could find some type of open source app that is like the wave software from elgato then i'll definitely jump to linux but until then i'll continue my search
So close. I see you are a new bleeding edge distro. When I try this, I get an error: GLIBC_2.38' not found. Apparently us LTS dweebs are stuck on 2.35 and breaks this script. (22.04 Ubuntu)
Thanks for sharing
I got it installed, but I can't dock any of the tools/windows such as navigator, layers, etc. once I drag any of them from their initial spot I can't dock them anywhere. Am I missing something?
work it bro, thanks!
Welcome 👍
Thanks for this, though it took me 8 tries and 2 distros, now it works.
@@kojiira08 haha glad it works
Which distros? Which one worked?
@@daveindezmenez I use Nobara
@@daveindezmenez Using Nobara worked for me.
@@daveindezmenez I'm using Nobara now.
I had to install Wine and Winetricks manually. Now I have an error. It goes like this:
All dependecies are installed!
bash: line 39: jq: command not found
File not found in the lates release
install jq also
@@RadosławKinicki I’m working on a new script that will install the needed dependencies
@@Mattscreative No problem, take your time. I'm planning to do design in VM with Windows 11 as main goal, but maybe some day Linux experience with Windows apps will be stable enough. Also, maybe this will be easier than VM USB and GPU passthrough. I am pretty new to Linux though.
@@Mattscreative will it work also on Fedora 41 or do i have to downgrade to 40?
thank you for your video Matt. With that, I just need a good video editor on linux to make the full migration. I still havent decided which version of linux, I'm gonna pick. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears. Here's what I need: a good, stable distribuition, It needs to have a good performance on videos and run waydroid to install some apps
user cachyos or pikaos 4 and grab davinci resolve studio 19 it's the only good video editor on linux
Davinci resolve
Many thanks for sharing! Greetings from France 😉
Twig did an epic job!
Not working on ubuntu, it does put a shortcut on desktop but when I try to open it nothing is happening. any help ?
@@muaztakrouri8977 it's not made for Ubuntu that distro is too outdated with packages
Thanks Matt, this looks spectacular! So, if I have Wine already installed, will it install a separate version of Wine?
it uses it's own wine yes and thats what makes it safe
Nice 👍. I want to know which monitor colour calibration software works (stable) in Linux with BenQ SW2700PT monitor and Calibrite i1 Studio Device (these are my hardware)?
If yes then, Who to calibrate the monitor colour for professional quality colour grading work (photo & video edit) ?
no idea
That's awesome. I ended up using opensource alternatives, but I'm also gonna try this because I do miss affinity
Affinity rules and the open source options are all bad sadly minus inkscape
@@Mattscreative yeah inkscape is the only one that works for me
Quick feedback: Please don't private your old outdated videos and rather update the title, leave the link in the description (and maybe disable comments). I only had the link bookmarked, and it took me some time to find your updated video :D
@@PhilFlipper i had too private that old one or else beginners would be overwhelmed when they could use this new method but I can promise a new one will replace the old one
File not found in the latest release
Same
As in from the CURL statement during the script run? I am curious to try this out. I would love to get Affinity back on my machine.
Found the solution. I missed the package "jq" on arch.
I have a 4k monitor and these apps are super tiny and hard to see at this resolution. Is there a way to scale them to enlarge the apps? i can do it with steam by adding -forcedesktopscaling=2.0 %U but that trick doesn't seem to work with wine. Hopefully there is a solution to this problem.
head to affinity linux's discord and seek help
Was excited but once I ran the very first code in Terminal I INSTANTLY hit a snag. No idea what to do.
bash: line 39: jq: command not found
File not found in the latest release
same :(
@@johnnymnemonic1199 Install the jq application. It handles JSON data. On Mint I just searched for it in the Software Manager.
Hey, maybe I missed a post or something, but isn't the repo down?
Back now
I managed to get all the way through this only once I copied the installer to the appropriate location, Wine threw an error saying the .AffinityLinux directory is a 32-bit installation and cant' accept 64-bit apps. Why would it have done this? Oh, it ate the installer too. It is just... gone. It added a useless shortcut to my app menu though!
Nice vid but I don't want to use wine directly, can I use bottles? And do I need to have an account with Affinity to use this product in linux too?
Sure but this is for the script only
Didn't find commend on line 39 of the script for Photo 2. :(
You have to install jq
Wine, Bottles and Proton is cursed for me. I have yet to get any Windows-only software or game to actually work. I never get the last pop-up to click yes and actually install Affinity, it just skips to creating an icon that does nothing.
When you close an Affinity app and reopen it are your settings saved? For instance if you uncheck "show on startup" of the welcome window does that window still open the next time you start an Affinity app? Cause for me, no settings are saved
Great stuff. I’ve never really asked, but do you like the Affinity apps better than the Adobe ones in and of themselves, or is a lot of the weight there because they’re easier to run on Linux?
yes i switched fully to affinity
Potentially super dumb question, but: Can this method be used to install trial versions as well? I'd love to try the suite out before shelling out almost 180 bucks tbh.
Well ya
@@Mattscreative hence the "super dumb question" part
Photo seems to work well with my Nobara installation on an old 2018 HP Spectre 360. However I am not having much luck getting pen pressure to work :( It works perfectly with Krita, but I believe Affinity Photo relies on Windows Ink which does not seem to have been enabled with this Wine Prefix. I will keep researching and attempt to enable it myself but don't hold out much hope...
Thanks! Is there a way to install Figma?
no idea try with lutris
Hi mate, thank you for your help. I do apologize but, in my case, I have a problem with WINE TRICK. the terminal says that its missing.
Well install it. For fedora : sudo dnf in winetricks
For arch : sudo pacman -S winetricks
For ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install winetricks
@@Mattscreative I'm going to try it. I'll give you some updates! Thanks!!
Have beeen making some tests and it works great, there is a bug which crash photo and design when to trying to export to JPEG and PNG. Anybody else had this problem? Is there a solution?
Crashing is a thing we gotta deal with just save before exporting
hello, can it be downloaded and installed on chromebook?
Is there a guide for reversing the installation of the affinity?
@@winstonwilkins just delete the prefix
Should I download the .exe before hand?
well ya
Took a while but it did install with no errors, I have a problem though, because Affinity Designer doesn't have an image trace option I have to use Inkscape to do that, and then import the .svg into Designer, but if the vector has a lot of detail then Designer will freeze. Someone else was having this issue in the forums but nobody helped lol. Other than that it works ok. I tried to open the .svg in Designer in a Windows VM and it loads without freezing so it's definitely not an Inkscape issue. If I can't get it to work I'll go the GPU passthrough route, I just need to buy an HDMI dummy.
If anyone has a fix for this, though, I'd appreciate it if you shared.
Google how to trace with affinity it's pretty simple
@Mattscreative I know how to trace manually in Affinity, but when it's faster to auto-trace, I'd rather do that instead. Your answer doesn't solve the problem I asked about which is complex vectors causing Affinity to freeze. Thanks for replying, though.
I can’t solve those problems. It’s just a side effect of using whatever you’re doing. I don’t get any freezes.
Hello Matt, what is the name of the fonts your using, Thank You :)
Impacted
@@Mattscreative Thanks :)
This doesn't work at all for me, I click on affinity and it tries to open and immediately closes...
head to the discord for affinity linux and grab some help
Does this work on POP! OS or do I need to run this from a VM?
why would you need to use a vm .... what would be the point come on now. just run the script as shown and it will work
Pop_OS 22 glibc version will not work with it. The 24 beta does have the correct glibc version and installs but seems to crash on boot ) looking into vulkan and renderer=g1 options with winetricks.
Will this work with Affinity version 1 as well?
yes
@@Mattscreative Thank you!
Guys I had a problem, the program does not run, don't forget to install winehq-staging thanks to the author:)
Anyone got it working on PopOS Cosmic?
You would have to try but popos is really outdated so who knows
@@Mattscreative what do you mean outdated? Its a stable release
Is fedora method run on open suse without issues
@@madmix2698 no idea ask in affinity Linux discord
Can affinity be updated in Linux?
@@TheTOBroShow yes run the script again and use the new exe
I'll test it in a VM right away, then I'll finally be free of Windows 🎉
Unfortunately, some tools don't work properly, Gimp and Krita for those who work with large images are basically garbage, I hope they evolve, but I've been waiting about 10 years.
WE NEED A NEW METHOD THY CLOSED
@@madmix2698 nothing closed. It’s still in the description.
Oof thanks
No problem
As to the comment at the end - try getting some legacy app or an old printer to install in windows 11. Guaranteed harder than cutting and pasting a line or two in a terminal
right!
Doesn't work.
it works but you need to head to their discord for support
@@Mattscreative It does not work. And Discord for support is utter most gatekeeping shit. Not everyone uses discord nor wants to use that spyware crap.
Typical new-area of wnb influencers.
This doesn't seem to work. After getting to the "Once downloaded place the..."-part of the guide, I get these errors:
can't remove '/home/USER/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Affinity Publisher 2.desktop': no such file or catalog.
cp: can't create normal file '/home/USER/Desktop/AffinityPublisher.desktop': No such file or catalog
cp: can't create normal file '/home/USER/Desktop/AffinityPublisher.desktop': No such file or catalog
that would be permission issues on your end
@@Mattscreative I see. I only started using Linux Mint 3 days ago, so very new to system. Found a video about setting permissions, but that didn't seem to fix the problem. It talked about using some code like: "sudo chow USER FILENAME.FORMAT" to set the permission.
As far as I can see I did it correctly (the ls- l command shows me as being the owner of the files). Or is it some other sort of permission I need to set? So far all the guides seem to talk about the same code.
this script does not support outdated distro's like mint it needs modern linux
@@Mattscreative Thank you. I’ll see if I can find a newer distro to install.
@@Mattscreative So found out distro means "the version of linux being used." I tried using Kubuntu, but that generates the same error. So I am guessing it doesn't support the script either.
What distro's does support the script? Really would like to get off Windows, but Affinity is the only thing really keeping me there.
I ran the script for designer, but I click the shortcut on the dock and nothing happens. No startup box shows with the Affinity logo and version number...I really want this to work. Music and Graphic Design are all that is keeping me on Windows, and I want OUT of windows...Please help if you can. I got pretty much the same console output as you when installing.
System Specs:
OS: Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Silverblue)
Kernal version: Linux 6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64
CPU: AMD 5600x
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070
RAM: Corsair Vengence 3600mhz 32Gb
Display: HP X34 3440x1440
PSU: Corsair HX1200 1200w platinum.
If you need any more system info let me know.
i am not touching bazzite with a 2000ft pole im sorry
@Mattscreative so what diatro would you recommend? I haven't tried arch, but have used manjaro before. I've used Pop_OS as well.
I would just like a linux distro that I can run affinity on successfully.
cachyos or pikaos
@Mattscreative I installed Arch (For fun) on my other computer (laptop) and managed to install Designer successfully and it runs - haven't edited anything, but it runs, so that's a good thing.
Next I'll put another distro on my main rig and see if I can do the same.