diff --git a/docs/development.md b/docs/development.md
index 66abd64cb..eac8d36c2 100644
--- a/docs/development.md
+++ b/docs/development.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ been fully updated yet. You can install Python from python.org or from your dist
 ```
 $ python3.9 -m venv ~/pyenv
 $ ~/pyenv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
-$ ~/pyenv/bin/pip install aqt
+$ ~/pyenv/bin/pip install aqt[qt6]
 ```
 
 Then to run Anki:
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $ ~/pyenv/bin/anki
 ```
 c:\> python -m venv \pyenv
 c:\> \pyenv\scripts\pip install --upgrade pip
-c:\> \pyenv\scripts\pip install aqt
+c:\> \pyenv\scripts\pip install aqt[qt6]
 ```
 
 Then to run Anki:
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ pip install --upgrade bazel-dist/*.whl
 
 On Windows you'll need to list out the filenames manually.
 
+If building on ARM Linux, please see the notes at the bottom of [Linux](./linux.md).
+
 ## Running tests
 
 You can run all tests at once. From the top level project folder:
diff --git a/docs/linux.md b/docs/linux.md
index a36f72efe..d150ab925 100644
--- a/docs/linux.md
+++ b/docs/linux.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Glibc is required - if you are on a distro like Alpine that uses musl, you'll ne
 to contribute fixes to the upstream [Rust rules](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/issues/390),
 then follow the steps in [Other Platforms](./new-platform.md).
 
+Users on ARM64, see the notes at the bottom of this file before proceeding.
+
 **Ensure some basic tools are installed**:
 
 ```
@@ -99,6 +101,29 @@ To run Anki in optimized mode, use:
 ./scripts/runopt
 ```
 
+## ARM64 support
+
+Other platforms download PyQt binary wheels from PyPI. There are no PyQt wheels available
+for ARM Linux, so you will need to rely on your system-provided libraries instead. As Anki
+requires Python 3.9, this means you will need a fairly up-to-date distro such as Debian 11.
+
+After installing the system libraries (eg 'sudo apt install python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine'),
+find the place they are installed (eg '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages'). Then before
+running any commands like './run', tell Anki where they can be found:
+
+```
+export PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/
+```
+
+Note: the trailing slash at the end is required.
+
+There are a few things to be aware of when doing this:
+
+-   You should use ./run and not scripts/run-qt5\*, even if your system libraries are Qt5.
+-   If your system libraries are Qt5, when creating an aqt wheel, the wheel will not work
+    on Qt6 environments.
+-   Some of the tests only work with PyQt6, and will show failures when run under PyQt5.
+
 ## More
 
 For info on running tests, building wheels and so on, please see [Development](./development.md).
diff --git a/proto/clang_format.bzl b/proto/clang_format.bzl
index a7a9ade37..2ea62cd44 100644
--- a/proto/clang_format.bzl
+++ b/proto/clang_format.bzl
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ alias(
         "@ankidesktop//platforms:macos_arm64": "@clang_format_macos_x86_64//:clang-format",
         "@ankidesktop//platforms:macos_x86_64": "@clang_format_macos_x86_64//:clang-format",
         "@ankidesktop//platforms:linux_x86_64": "@clang_format_linux_x86_64//:clang-format",
+        "@ankidesktop//platforms:linux_arm64": "@clang_format_local//:clang-format",
     }),
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"]
 )
@@ -60,6 +61,13 @@ def setup_clang_format(name):
         ],
     )
 
+    if not native.existing_rule("clang_format_local"):
+        native.new_local_repository(
+            name = "clang_format_local",
+            path = "/usr/bin",
+            build_file_content = "exports_files(['clang-format'])",
+        )
+
     if not native.existing_rule(name):
         _setup_clang_format(
             name = name,
diff --git a/pylib/anki/BUILD.bazel b/pylib/anki/BUILD.bazel
index 4a24cec0f..4ca46641e 100644
--- a/pylib/anki/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/pylib/anki/BUILD.bazel
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ py_wheel(
         "//platforms:windows_x86_64": "win_amd64",
         "//platforms:macos_x86_64": "macosx_10_13_x86_64",
         "//platforms:linux_x86_64": "manylinux_2_28_x86_64",
-        "//platforms:linux_arm64": "manylinux_2_28_aarch64",
+        # Built on a Debian 11 image that has Qt 5.15
+        "//platforms:linux_arm64": "manylinux_2_31_aarch64",
     }),
     python_tag = "cp39",
     requires = [
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ py_wheel(
         "protobuf>=3.17",
         "markdown",
         "stringcase",
-        'orjson; platform_machine == "x86_64"',
+        "orjson",
         'psutil; sys_platform == "win32"',
         'distro; sys_platform != "darwin" and sys_platform != "win32"',
     ],
diff --git a/python/python.bzl b/python/python.bzl
index 6add734f8..f6fd1830c 100644
--- a/python/python.bzl
+++ b/python/python.bzl
@@ -12,26 +12,40 @@ _python_distros = {
         url = "https://github.com/ankitects/python-build-standalone/releases/download/anki-2021-10-15/cpython-3.9.7-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only-20211013T1538.tar.gz",
         sha256 = "6a42fe15950f4e42000f5c68ebefacf8fce024f4d80a446789c18b174efdec1b",
     ),
+    "linux_arm64": struct(
+        # pending https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/issues/95
+        url = "https://github.com/ankitects/python-build-standalone/releases/download/anki-2021-10-15/cpython-3.9.7-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only-20211013T1538.tar.gz",
+        sha256 = "2c5812d2e29b83b428a3da1f6c1a99b0581382e65290a767f8de25cbd1269d2a",
+    ),
     "windows_amd64": struct(
         url = "https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20211012/cpython-3.9.7-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc-shared-install_only-20211011T1926.tar.gz",
         sha256 = "80370f232fd63d5cb3ff9418121acb87276228b0dafbeee3c57af143aca11f89",
     ),
 }
 
-def get_platform(rctx):
+def _unix_arch(rctx):
+    result = rctx.execute(["arch"])
+    if result.return_code:
+        fail("invoking arch failed", result.stderr)
+    return result.stdout.strip()
+
+def _get_platform(rctx):
     if rctx.os.name == "mac os x":
-        result = rctx.execute(["arch"])
-        if result.return_code:
-            fail("invoking arch failed", result.stderr)
-        arch = result.stdout.strip()
+        arch = _unix_arch(rctx)
         if arch == "i386":
             return "macos_amd64"
         elif arch == "arm64":
             return "macos_arm64"
         else:
-            fail("unexpected arch:", arch)
+            fail("unexpected arch", arch)
     elif rctx.os.name == "linux":
-        return "linux_amd64"
+        arch = _unix_arch(rctx)
+        if arch == "x86_64":
+            return "linux_amd64"
+        elif arch == "aarch64":
+            return "linux_arm64"
+        else:
+            fail("unexpected arch", arch)
     elif rctx.os.name.startswith("windows"):
         return "windows_amd64"
     else:
@@ -43,7 +57,7 @@ def _impl(rctx):
         path = rctx.os.environ.get("PYO3_PYTHON")
         rctx.symlink(path, "python")
     else:
-        platform = get_platform(rctx)
+        platform = _get_platform(rctx)
         distro = _python_distros.get(platform)
         rctx.download_and_extract(
             url = distro.url,
diff --git a/qt/aqt/forms/build_ui.py b/qt/aqt/forms/build_ui.py
index 158ab0210..ab7e19038 100644
--- a/qt/aqt/forms/build_ui.py
+++ b/qt/aqt/forms/build_ui.py
@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ import re
 import sys
 import io
 import os
-from PyQt6.uic import compileUi
+try:
+    from PyQt6.uic import compileUi
+except ImportError:
+    # ARM64 Linux builds may not have access to PyQt6, and may have aliased
+    # it to PyQt5. We allow fallback, but the _qt6.py files will not be valid.
+    from PyQt5.uic import compileUi
+
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
 
@@ -45,8 +51,13 @@ def with_fixes_for_qt6(code: str) -> str:
 
 
 def with_fixes_for_qt5(code: str) -> str:
+    code = code.replace(
+        "from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets",
+        "from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets\nfrom aqt.utils import tr\n",
+    )
     code = code.replace("Qt6", "Qt5")
     code = code.replace("QtGui.QAction", "QtWidgets.QAction")
+    code = code.replace("import icons_rc", "")
     return code