Installing Maya 2022 on Ubuntu

Solution:

The installation of Maya 2022 on Ubuntu is non-standard. You need to install additional packages, convert the Maya rpm to a Debian package, and install Maya from the generated Debian package.

Get the packages required for converting the rpm package.

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential zlib1g-dev

Get and install libXp6.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeehio/libxp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxp6

Extract the contents of the Maya installation package and change directory to its install/Packages directory.

Convert the rpm packages in the installation to deb packages.

sudo alien -vc *.rpm

Install packages for standalone licensing.

sudo apt install lsb-core

Install the licensing packages: adlmapps, adlmflexnetserveripv6, adlmflexnetclient, and adsklicensing. For example:

sudo apt-get install ./adlmapps<version_number>_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./adlmflexnetserveripv6<version_number>_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./adlmflexnetclient-<version_number>_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./adsklicensing<version_number>_amd64.deb

Verify that the licensing service is running.

sudo systemctl status adsklicensing

If the licensing service is not running:

Start it using this command:
```
/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensingService --run
```
Verify again that the service is running.

If it is still not running, set up the licensing service manually:

sudo getent group adsklic &>/dev/null || sudo groupadd adsklic
sudo id -u adsklic &>/dev/null || sudo useradd -M -r -g adsklic adsklic -d / -s /usr/sbin/nologin  
sudo ln -sf /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/ <version>/AdskLicensingService/AdskLicensingService /usr/bin/AdskLicensingService
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system
sudo cp -f /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/<version>/AdskLicensingService/adsklicensing.el7.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/adsklicensing.service
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/systemd/system/adsklicensing.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable adsklicensing -quiet
sudo systemctl start adsklicensing

Install Maya.

sudo apt-get install <Maya2022 deb package>

Verify that Maya has been registered. Maya should appear in the list of products returned by:

/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/<version_number>/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper list

If it does not, manually register it using

sudo /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/<version_number>/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657N1 -pv 2022.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2022/MayaConfig.pit

Then verify that it is in the list.

Install additional required packages for running Maya.

sudo apt-get install libfam0 libcurl4 libpcre16-3 libjpeg62 libxm4 xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama0 (required for Maya 2022)
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre16.so.3 /usr/autodesk/maya2022/lib/libpcre16.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1 /usr/autodesk/maya2022/lib/libssl.so.10
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/autodesk/maya2022/lib/libcrypto.so.10
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXp.so.6 /usr/autodesk/maya2022/lib/libXp.so.6
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi
xset fp rehash

You need libpng15.so.15 to run Maya. Because libpng15.so.15 is no longer available as a package, you need to download its source code from Sourceforge and build it locally.

cd ~/tmp
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng15/older-releases/1.5.15/libpng-1.5.15.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ./libpng-1.5.15.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.5.15
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libpng
make check
sudo make install
make check
sudo ln -s /usr/local/libpng/lib/libpng15.so.15 /usr/autodesk/maya2022/lib/libpng15.so.15

Create the /usr/tmp directory.

sudo mkdir /usr/tmp
sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp

Set environment variables in the Maya.env file.
The Maya.env file is located in ~/maya/2022/Maya.env, You can create the file if it does not exist.
You will need to set MAYA_DISABLE_ADP and LC_ALL.
MAYA_DISABLE_ADP disables ADP, which can cause a hang on close, while LC_ALL ensures that Maya works with Ubuntu color correction.

echo "MAYA_DISABLE_ADP=1" >> ~/maya/2022/Maya.env
echo "LC_ALL=C" >> ~/maya/2022/Maya.env

Start Maya.

/usr/autodesk/maya2022/bin/maya

Refer to this page for general information about the Maya 2022 installation on Linux.

Installing Maya 2022 on Ubuntu

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