HOWTO: Installing Maya 7.0

[3dimentia]

probably cause ubuntu is seeing a different hardware address then your windows box is. There are some utilities you can use in the aw/bin folder where you can check the hardware address. I cant remember the name of it at the moment though.

cheers

[AlexC_]

do you mean the mac address? If so it is the same as on my Windows PC.

[DinoeL]

If you get this error:

/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

You need to link your libstdc++.so.5, and libgcc_s.so.1 into /usr/aw/maya/lib

 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libstdc++.so.5
sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Worked for me.

[3dimentia]

do you mean the mac address? If so it is the same as on my Windows PC.

Yah i did mean your mac address. I thought the same thing, but on my machine in windows, vs machine in ubuntu, its using different mac addresses ( I assume windows/maya is just fine using say a wireless, where as ubuntu and maya were looking at the ethernet card).

I didn't know for sure if this would fix your problem, but it is what my problem was (with that same error) and now everything works just dandy.

cheers

[AlexC_]

Ok so I shall fiddle around with the mac address. Could you give an example of the aw.dat file please? I think I've played around with it to much now and want to check if it's all correct apart from the mac address.

Merry Christmas!

[3dimentia]

FEATURE MayaUnltd sgiawd 8.000 permanent uncounted XXXXXXXXXXXX \
HOSTID=XXXXXXXXXXXX

obviously I removed my info, but basic aw.dat file.

To get the right host ID:

open up a terminal
cd to aw/COM/bin
type ./lmhostid press enter.

It'll spit out the host id that maya/linux want and away you go.

cheers m8

[AlexC_]

Wooohoo! Thanks so much 3dimentia, now I can be Windows free

[AlexC_]

Hey,

I'm having some trouble with the Maya open/save dialog, see the attachments. In the Maya dialog all I can see is 2 distorted items, yet in the Nautilus screenshot that is the real contents of the dir I am looking in. Why is it doing this?

Please, Autodesk make a GTK/QT version!!

[AlexC_]

anyone?

[AlexC_]

Ahh, the problem was because of my font settings, here is my MayaScheme file that works perfectly and looks good.

*extraLargeBoldLabelFont:          -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*largeBoldLabelFont:               -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*boldLabelFont:                    -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallBoldLabelFont:               -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*tinyBoldLabelFont:                -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*plainLabelFont:                   -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallPlainLabelFont:              -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*FontList:                         -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*obliqueLabelFont:                 -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallObliqueLabelFont:            -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*fixedWidthFont:                   -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallFixedWidthFont:              -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmLabel.fontList:                 -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmLabelGadget.fontList:           -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmScale*fontList:                 -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*SgColumn.fontList:                -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmRowColumn.OptionLabel.fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*Label*font:                       -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*LabelFont:                        -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*Label*fontlist:                   -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

*basicBackground:            #e7e7e7
Maya*Background:             #e7e7e7
*textForeground:             #000000
*textFieldBackground:        #eeeeee
*readOnlyBackground:         #bdbdbd
*buttonBackground:           #bdbdbd
*scrollBarTroughColor:       #bdbdbd
*scrollBarControlBackground: #bdbdbd
*indicatorBackground:        #cbcbcb
*radioColor:                 #0000ff
*checkColor:                 #ff0000
*blueSelectBackgroundColor1: #3884c4
*blueSelectBackgroundColor2: #81a7c1
*drawingAreaBackground:      #90abb1
*drawingAreaContrastColor1:  #b86b6b
*drawingAreaContrastColor2:  #7894bf
*drawingAreaContrastColor3:  #7ba988
*drawingAreaContrastColor4:  #ab7ec8
*scrolledListBackground:     #bdbdbd
*textBackground:             #b5b5b5
*highlightColor1:            #ff0000
*highlightColor2:	#0000ff
*highlightColor3:	#00ff00
*highlightColor4:	#a01ef0
*highlightColor5:	#ffa500
*highlightColor6:	#00ffff
*highlightColor7:	#ff00ff
*HighlightColor8:	#ffff00
*wMBackground:	#aaaaaa
*wMForeground:	#000000
*wMActiveBackground:	#c6c1aa
*wMActiveForeground:	#000000
*textSelectedBackground:	#e6e6e6
*textSelectedForeground:	#000000
*indicatorLightColor:	#ffff00
*selectFillColor:	#ffff00
*redColor:	#ff0000
*orangeColor:	#ff7e00
*yellowColor:	#ffff00
*greenColor:	#4fe44f
*blueColor:	#0000ff
*brownColor:	#743f3f
*purpleColor:	#ae00ff
*errorColor:	#ff0000
*warningColor:	#0000ff
*informationColor:	#00ff00
*alternateBackground1:	#c1adad
*alternateBackground2:	#a7b7a7
*alternateBackground3:	#bbbbcd
*alternateBackground4:	#9fbfbf
*alternateBackground5:	#87aaca
*alternateBackground6:	#d1d1c9
*disabledTextForeground:	#aaaaaa
*layerAdjustmentTextForeground:	#e56929
*lightRadioFillColor:	#9e9edc
*disabledCheckColor:	#dc9e9e