Toon Boom Harmony Linux Install

Here’s an interesting, slightly quirky guide to installing Toon Boom Harmony on Linux — because yes, it’s possible, but no, it’s not officially supported.

However, modern animators rarely use these. Most try to run Harmony on Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 LTS or Fedora.

Part 2: The "Supported" Reality vs. The Real World

Toon Boom officially supports:

Open your terminal and run the following commands to pull in the mandatory packages via your package manager: Installing Harmony on GNU/Linux - Toon Boom Documentation

2. Target environment

• Distribution: (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
• Kernel: (output of uname -r)
• Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit)
• GPU: (vendor/model and driver version)
• RAM/CPU: (e.g., 32 GB RAM, Intel i7)
• Disk: (available space)
• Display server: X11 / Wayland (specify)

Required Dependencies (all distributions):

However, installing software on Linux often requires more manual configuration than the typical "Next, Next, Finish" process on Windows. This guide will walk you through installing Toon Boom Harmony on Linux, covering prerequisites, installation, and post-install setup.

# Download RHEL 7's libpng12 RPM (for educational use)
wget https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/20/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/l/libpng12-1.2.50-7.fc20.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh libpng12-1.2.50-7.fc20.x86_64.rpm --nodeps

Toon Boom officially builds and optimizes Harmony for enterprise-grade Linux systems. While it may be possible to run it on debian-based systems like Ubuntu, doing so is highly unsupported and prone to catastrophic crashes.