maya and linux

[JamSession]

I have never tried w/ gentoo, but I know it is very easy with fedora core 4, and red hat. You just need to make sure your drivers are updated!

[beaker]

Not that hard. Works just fine here. Just install rpm support, openmotif and any other requirements listed in the docs. There are many threads on the gentoo forum on getting maya running, though some of them do it the hard way(without rpm support).

[brendan_orr]

One could alternatively use alien (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/) to convert the packages from rpm to another format (for instance a slackware package which is simply a tar.gz file) and then untarring that into /usr/aw (or to /, you may wish to open it in konqueror, file roller, or simply using 'tar tzvf filename' to see the contents). Then check to make sure the requisit libraries are found using ldd:
===============>8=======================
$ ldd /usr/aw/maya/bin/maya.bin
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libMaya.so => not found
libIMF.so => not found
....
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7c63000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7c5a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7c48000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7b2b000)
libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0xb73c2000)
libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xb73c0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb73bc000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb73b4000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb739b000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb7000)
===============>8=======================

make sure to note the ones that have "not found". Some of them (for instance "libIMF.so" isn't found since /usr/aw/maya/lib/ isn't in /etc/ld.so.conf (or the env. variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH) don't worry about those as the /usr/aw/maya/bin/maya script will define these prior to calling maya.bin (which is the actual program). Additionally, you can change the installation path using MAYA_LOCATION, however I'd rather stick to the default /usr/aw/maya directory. Best of luck.
--Brendan

[beaker]

so much easier to just do a "rpm -ivh --nodeps maya_blahblah.rpm". :)

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