# Rhino on Linux?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-on-linux/8820>\
**Category:** Rhino\
**Created:** [May 31, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-on-linux/8820 "2014-05-31T09:20:38Z")\
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Is this the right place to share success reports?

I got the latest `rhino_en-us_7.32.23221.10241.exe` running. Still trying 8 WIP.

Couldn’t lock license to the host (aka standalone), only floating/cloud worked. But after installation it is possible to run it offline (at least it hasn’t complained yet).

When installing Rhino 8 third parties it tried to connect to were google, baidu and gravatar. If you block them (opensnitch) licensing failed.

```auto
OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.4.10-arch1-1
DE: KDE
WM: KWin
CPU: Intel i7-10750H (12) @ 5.000GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile / Max-Q
GPU: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics]

```

Pacman/AUR packages. Probably not everything from this list is needed.

```auto
multilib/wine
extra/vkd3d
extra/wine-gecko
extra/wine-mono
multilib/lib32-vkd3d
aur/dxvk-bin
aur/winetricks-git

```

wine setup without a prefix (based on [this demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76xqUbO1Gc)):

```auto
winetricks -q corefonts pptfonts dotnet48 vcrun2005 vcrun2010 vcrun2013 vcrun2019 vcrun6 vcrun6sp6 gdiplus dxvk
wine winecfg -v win10
wine Downloads/rhino_en-us_7.32.23221.10241.exe

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/7/d/d/7dd2c317cdf1bc52208f33980ada9d2c4d14f0e9.png)

Under Wayland (KDE) and with an optimus laptop on nvidia binary driver (not open source) worked as well. Nvidia render offload causes quite a few glitches though (but no crashes yet):

```auto
env __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1__ VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Rhino\ 7/System/Rhino.exe

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/0/d/1/0d15a9246fd55ed032b37acb5d09238ef0f74b3a.png)

and finishing commands doesn’t refresh the window (this is after clickling to complete the box):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/9/9/2/99243602aae73832e3cf8d4be367dc7f9dcdc320.png)

Still hasn’t tested it on a properly large scene (only some boxes).

Statup times are really nice - ~12 seconds both on Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU. Seems about the same as on native Windows.

Firejail works as well with the default profile and this `.config/firejail/wine.local`:

```auto
whitelist ${HOME}/.wine
whitelist ${HOME}/.cache/winetricks
whitelist ${HOME}/.cache/wine
whitelist ${HOME}/Desktop
tmpfs ${HOME}/Desktop
disable-mnt
net none
# ignore allow-debuggers

```

not sure why allow-debuggers is needed, but otherwise licensing doesn’t work.

I’ve tried bottles, as well, but couldn’t even start the installer (always only showed a blank white window).

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