maya 2009 help

[dongfanglong]

Ok I'm very new to linux (just installed it yesterday) and I need to run maya witch is where my problem lies.
It was installed using its installer that comes with maya. I click on the maya icon in the finder and the logo starts to do its little bouncing animation thing and flicks out and nothing happens. I have reinstalled nothing at this point I'm really not sure how to go about getting it to work because it does not spit out any kind of error message or anything it just does not start. If anyone knows anything about this or could point me in the direction of something like this I would be eternally great-full to you.


linux:

mandriva 2010 64bit free

maya:

2009 64bit

computer specs:

2 gig ram ddrII
2.4 core 2 duo
GeForce 8600m GT

If you need any more info just let me know and thanks for taking the time to read this.

[Irithori]

Please open a terminal and start maya by typing its name.

It will also not start, but most probably give some error message saying why.

[dongfanglong]

when i tried to run it form the cmd line i got this

bash: /usr/local/bin/maya: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I tried creating a desktop icon and when i try to run that i get this

KDEInit could not launch '/usr/autodesk/maya/bin/maya',

Does maya not run in KDE?

[Rubberman]

According to the Autodesk web site, May 2001 only works on RHEL 5.3 or Fedora Core 8 for Linux systems, and 2009 works on RHEL 4 and FC8 (64-bit). Since it doesn't specify Mandriva, I have to suggest that you are on your own there.

[Irithori]

Rubberman is correct, if a distro is not mentioned -especially regarding commercial software-
you will have trouble getting official support by the vendor.

That said, this error is easy to fix

bash: /usr/local/bin/maya: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

It misses the correct shell, in this case the csh shell.
csh is part of the package management and can be installed easily.

[dongfanglong]

Thank you dude that fixed that but another error came up after that

/usr/autodesk/maya2009-x64/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but I check i and that is installed.

find /usr -iname "*libXp.so.6*"

# result #
/usr/lib/libXp.so.6
/usr/lib/libXp.so.6.2.0

[Irithori]

One could trace this problem further, with

ldd /usr/autodesk/maya2009-x64/bin/maya.bin

It will probably show, that maya looks for the libraries in the wrong place.
That *could* be solved by setting softlinks. Which is not a clean solution.

These are the kind of problems because of a non-supported distribution.
It would be wiser to use either rhel 5.3 or fedora 8.
A centos 5.3 will most probably work, too.
Because centos and rhel are supposed to be binary compatible.

[Rubberman]

If you gotta run mandrive, then install a virtual machine manager such as VirtualBox (free from Sun) and run RHEL or CentOS 5.3 in a virtual machine, installing Maya there. At least you won't have to worry about munging your standard OS.

[dongfanglong]

Well it seems that fedora is supported by autodesk but not ubuntu so why do you suggest ubuntu?

[Rubberman]

Who's suggesting Ubuntu? I don't see that in this thread. CentOS, yes. That is the community version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is as far as I have been able to determine 99.995% (say 100%) binary compatible with RHEL. You can download a liveCD, liveDVD, or install CD ISO from www.centos.org - The Community ENTerprise Operating System.