Install Maya on Linux using the rpm package

The standard way of installing Maya on Linux is with the installer.

However, you can also install Maya on Linux using the rpm files in the Maya installation package. You must have superuser privileges to install Maya from rpm.

Before installing Maya, ensure that all the additional required Linux packages are installed on your system.

1. Change directory to install/Packages in the Maya installation package.
2. Install the licensing rpm packages: adsklicensing, adlmflexnetclient, adlmflexnetserverIPV6, and adlmapps17:

   sudo dnf install adsklicensing14.0.0.10163-0-0.x86_64.rpm
   
   sudo dnf install adskflexnetclient-11.18.0-0.x86_64.rpm
   
   sudo dnf install adskflexnetserverIPV6-11.19.4-1.x86_64.rpm
   
   sudo dnf install adlmapps29-29.0.2-0.x86_64.rpm

3. Verify that the licensing service is running:

   sudo /usr/bin/systemctl status adsklicensing

   If the service is not running, run:

   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/bin/nologin 
   
   sudo /usr/bin/systemctl enable adsklicensing --quiet
   
   sudo /usr/bin/systemctl start adsklicensing  

   Then check that the licensing service has started and is running.

   If the licensing service is still not running, run /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensingService --run and check /var/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensingService/Log/AdskLicensingService.log for messages.

4. Install Maya using the included Maya rpm

   sudo rpm -vhi <Maya_rpm_package> --force 

5. 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 657Q1 -pv 2025.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/<mayaversion>/MayaConfig.pit

   Then run /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/<version_number>/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper list again to verify that it is in the list.
6. If you require Bifrost, USD, LookdevX, or Substance, install them using their included rpms

   sudo dnf install <Bifrost_rpm_package>
   sudo dnf install <USD_rpm_package>
   sudo dnf install <LookdevX_rpm_package>
   sudo dnf install <AdobeSubstance_rpm_package>

7. To install MtoA, run

   sudo ./unix_installer.sh

8. Start Maya

   /usr/autodesk/<mayaversion>/bin/maya

   If Maya fails to start with "error while loading shared library", verify that you have installed all the additional required Linux packages needed to run Maya.