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ilbozo

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 8

Maya on Arch

Hi everyone,
this is my first post on archlinux forum. First of all i must excuse for my poor english. I'm new to this linux distro, i was originally a windows user that switched a couple of years ago to linux (ubuntu). I liked the simplicity of ubuntu but disappointed on many unclared things that now, on arch, looks more clear. I just installed arch with gnome and quite every software i need. I got few problems but now they looks solved except for some problems that haven't been solved from other more experienced users, so i feel quite satisfied
I'm writing here cause i need some help on the commercial software that i use for my work: Maya.
I found something in the forum but nobody talks about the "Howto install maya on arch".

The linux version of maya is shipped in rpm format. On ubuntu i usually converted the files in a deb archive using Alien and then installed with dpkg. I saw that on other distros more similar to arch (like gentoo) users need to extract the rpms and then launch the installer script or copy manually files on the appropriate folder.
This tutorial explains how to install Maya on gentoo, but i don't know if it's a good starting point.

I wrote a guide for installing Maya on ubuntu and i want to do the same for archlinux. Could you help me please?

Thank you very much,
ilbozo

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Maya on Arch

Welcome to Arch.

There is a shell script called rpmextract in extra. Once it's installed, running it is as simple as:

rpmextract.sh <your_rpm_file>

That should get you started.

Last edited by skottish (2007-11-18 19:56:07)

ilbozo

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 8

Re: Maya on Arch

Ok, i did it.
Thank u very much!
It created an usr folder containing aw folder and autodesk folder. I think i'll try to follow the guide linked in first msg. One more thing, i searched csh with pacman and i found scsh and tcsh... what should i choose? Maya depends on it...

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Maya on Arch

Maya depends on C shell? WTF?!

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ilbozo

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 8

Re: Maya on Arch

maybe ia am wrong... however i solved modifying the maya launcher from /bin/csh to /usr/bin/tcsh. It lloks like it's working.
One more question:
I linked the maya executable to /usr/local/bin. is it wrong? i cannot run maya only by typing in terminal "maya".

ilbozo

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 8

Re: Maya on Arch

and another one:
Maya uses openmotif, when i run maya it tells me that cannot find helvetica font, how can i solve it?

error msg:
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //

ilbozo

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Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 8

Re: Maya on Arch

Ignore the last msg... But now i get a signal 11 error launching maya...

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Maya on Arch

For the fonts: make sure you have at least one of xorg-fonts-100/75dpi and xorg-fonts-misc.
For openmotif: install lesstif.

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