Howto install Maya, Matchmover and Toxic 2011 on Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 10.04)

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Autodesk Maya is a software application used for 3D animation, 3D modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, match moving, and compositing.Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural visualization and design.

The installation packages that come with Maya are .rpm packages. To get this running we need to convert the packages to .deb. For that use Alien.

sudo apt-get install alien

Now there are a few things we need to make sure are installed, like fonts etc.

sudo apt-get install csh, tcsh, libglw1-mesa, libglw1-mesa-dev, libaudiofile-dev, libaudiofile0, libaudiofile0-dbg, elfutils, ttf-liberation, ttf-mscorefonts-installer

You may also need to install these if you find packages are missing

sudo apt-get install tcsh fam libxp6 libxpm4 libxprintapputil1 libxprintutil1 cpio rpm ia32-libs

We need to set up some symbolic links now:

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk

sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw

and then:

export RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

We need to convert all of the rpm files to deb using alien. Make a folder on your drive called Maya2011 and move all of your rpm files into there. There is one package that is not included in the rpm file zip which is called adlmflexnetserver-1.2.26-0.x86_64.rpm. This is the license server so you will need it. It is included with the open source code.

*NOTE Autodesk has only released Backburner in 32 bit for Linux, so you won't be able to convert it. If you did so, just remove any backburner packages from the Maya2011 folder. They aren't compatible with our 64 bit architecture.

Here is a list of all the files you will need:

* EULA
* adlmapps-1.3.34-0.x86_64.rpm
* adlmflexnetclient-1.3.34-0.x86_64.rpm
* adlmflexnetserver-1.3.34-0.x86_64.rpm
* Composite2011-2011.0-2459.x86_64.rpm Install this if you want Toxic
* MatchMover2011_0_64-2011.0-177.x86_64.rpm Install this if you want Matchmover
* Maya2011_0_64-2011.0-271.x86_64.rpm
* Maya2011_0-docs_en_US_64-2011-88.x86_64.rpm
* MID.txt
* setup
* setup.xml
* setupbar.png

Now open terminal and navigate to the Maya2011 folder something like cd/whereveryoupuit/maya2011

Pass the following:

for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done

This is where you get to use your extra cores. Alien will convert the packages to deb files. It could take 5-15 minutes depending on your system specs.

Now install the .deb packages:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Now we need to set up some symbolic links for programs like fcheck.

cd /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/fcheck fcheck

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/maya2011 maya

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/imgcvt imgcvt

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/Render Render

cd /usr/autodesk

sudo ln -s maya2011-x64 maya

Let's make some icons on our desktop for our install by entering the following:

sudo ln -sf /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/desktop/Autodesk-Maya.desktop /usr/share/applications/Autodesk-Maya.desktop

sudo ln -sf /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/desktop/Autodesk-Maya.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Autodesk-Maya.directory

Set up Mental Ray:

sudo mkdir /usr/tmp

sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp

Set up the user interface:

sudo sh -c "echo ‘setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8' >> /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/maya2011"

After this completes, it's time to set up the licensing system:

/usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/licensechooser /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/ standalone unlimited

Rare for Linux, reboot.

Let's create a fake binary license file:

Go to your home folder and create a .c file named mayaInstall.c

Enter:

int main (void) {return 0; }

cd /home/usernameexample/Maya2011

sh -c "echo ‘int main (void) {return 0; }' >> /home/exempleuser/Maya2011/mayaInstall.c"

Open up terminal again and enter:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/R1/lib64/

For the next line of code, the number in red 658D1 is your product code. This can change with different versions of Maya, so be sure to enter it correctly or you will get an error: reason ##

/usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/adlmreg -i S 658C1 658D1 2011.0.0.F “yourserialnumber” /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2011/MayaConfig.pit

Autodesk recommends a reboot at this point, this has been the only way I have done it as well.

Navigate to your Maya2011 folder.

sudo ./setup

Follow menu instructions.

Open up a terminal and enter the following:

cd /usr/lib

sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3

cd /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/lib/

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.6

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 libssl.so.6

We are almost done, we need to add the following symbolic links:

ln –s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.8 libssl.so.6

ln –s /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.8 libcrypto.so.6

***If the above license setup technique does not work try this:

Open up another terminal to launch the GUI license importer. Input:

sudo /opt/Autodesk/Adlm/R1/bin/LTU 657C1 2011.0.0.F -d “SA”

Enter your license information.

Launch Maya with the maya command!

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