Maya 2017 Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

maya2017install.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Make sure we’re running with root permissions.
if [ `whoami` != root ]; then
    echo Please run this script using sudo
    echo Just type “sudo !!”
    exit
fi

#Check for 64-bit arch
if [uname -m != x86_64]; then
    echo Maya will only run on 64-bit linux. 
    echo Please install the 64-bit ubuntu and try again.
    exit
fi

## Create Download Directory
mkdir -p maya2017Install
cd maya2017Install

## Download Maya Install Files
wget http://edutrial.autodesk.com/NET17SWDLD/2017/MAYA/ESD/Autodesk_Maya_2017_EN_JP_ZH_Linux_64bit.tgz
tar xvf Autodesk_Maya_2017_EN_JP_ZH_Linux_64bit.tgz

## Install Dependencies
apt-get install -y libssl1.0.0
apt-get install -y gcc  
apt-get install -y libssl-dev 
apt-get install -y libjpeg62 
apt-get install -y alien 
apt-get install -y csh 
apt-get install -y tcsh 
apt-get install -y libaudiofile-dev 
apt-get install -y libglw1-mesa 
apt-get install -y elfutils 
apt-get install -y libglw1-mesa-dev 
apt-get install -y mesa-utils 
apt-get install -y xfstt 
apt-get install -y ttf-liberation 
apt-get install -y xfonts-100dpi 
apt-get install -y xfonts-75dpi 
apt-get install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
apt-get install -y libfam0 
apt-get install -y libfam-dev 
apt-get install -y libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/183708483/libxp6_1.0.2-2_amd64.deb

## Install Maya 
alien -cv *.rpm
dpkg -i *.deb
echo "int main (void) {return 0;}" > mayainstall.c
gcc mayainstall.c
mv /usr/bin/rpm /usr/bin/rpm_backup
cp a.out /usr/bin/rpm
chmod +x ./setup
./setup
rm /usr/bin/rpm
mv /usr/bin/rpm_backup /usr/bin/rpm

## Fix Startup Errors
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5.2.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libssl.so.10
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libcrypto.so.10

mkdir -p /usr/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/tmp

mkdir -p ~/maya/2017/
chmod 777 ~/maya/2017/

## Fix Segmentation Fault Error
echo "MAYA_DISABLE_CIP=1" >> ~/maya/2017/Maya.env

## Fix Color Managment Errors
echo "LC_ALL=C" >> ~/maya/2017/Maya.env

chmod 777 ~/maya/2017/Maya.env

## Maya Camera Modifier Key
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"

## Ensure that Fonts are Loaded
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/
xset fp rehash

echo Maya was installed successfully. 

Thanks for this script.
It works perfect on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
But somehow not on 17.10
When trying to start Maya, I am getting this odd

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

message and nothing else happens. Also tried with updating the symlinks to: ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5.2.6 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
as well as making a symlink to the graphics driver as I did on 16.04 LTS: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libGL.so /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libGL.so

Thanks for any help installing on a fresh and clean Ubuntu 17.10

Update: for Maya2018 with Nvidia 390 driver make sure to:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-390/libGL.so /usr/autodesk/maya2018/lib/libGL.so

I have the same problem that @magdesign has on ubuntu 17.10
-> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Waiting for an update.
Thank you for you work

Encountered the Segmentation fault as well after upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 yesterday.
It does actually launch fine when starting with ./maya.bin in /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin directly
./maya2017 script throws the segfault

I was getting the Segmentation Fault error. It's because it wasn't able to find libtbb_preview.so.2 . So I had to make a link to it using: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtbb.so.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtbb_preview.so.2

I fixed the error in Ubuntu 17.10 with starting maya with ./maya.bin instead of ./maya

To fix the xgen error, make a script to launch maya with this content:

#!/bin/csh -f
#
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/xgen/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/substance/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/camd/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/fbx/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/MASH/lib:/usr/autodesk/maya2018/plug-ins/xgen/lib
/usr/autodesk/maya2018/bin/maya.bin

Color Management Error:

Thank you very much for this script.
I got this error while starting Maya. What I did to fix it per the suggestion of this page https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Failed-to-apply-color-management-settings-on-file-open.html

echo "MAYA_CM_DISABLE_ERROR_POPUPS=1" >> ~/maya/2017/Maya.env
echo "MAYA_COLOR_MGT_NO_LOGGING=1" >> ~/maya/2017/Maya.env

and I stopped seeing the error. I would probably include these lines to the original script.

So, any update to this script with new SP or Maya 2018?

@Nixellion,

Apply the same thing on this script only changing maya2017 by maya2018, and all the fixes up here as well, and finally (unfortunately) run with "sudo" and it should be working fine, oh, and don't forget, the libGL.so and libEGL.so will be at nvidia-VERSION folder not just nvidia, i.e. nvidia-387/libGL.so

The only thing I'm running using "sudo" is due to the LicenseServer fail to authenticate or run with normal user, and it could be an Ubuntu thing, that requires "su" privileges to open or use any port under 10000, but that's just a wild guess, not something concrete.

@borgfriend Thanks for this script!

chmod 0:0 Maya2017_64-2017.0//var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017
chmod 755 Maya2017_64-2017.0//var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017
chown 0:0 Maya2017_64-2017.0//var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017/MayaConfig.pit
chmod 755 Maya2017_64-2017.0//var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017/MayaConfig.pit
mkdir Maya2017_64-2017.0/debian
hostname
date -R
hostname
date -R
chmod 755 Maya2017_64-2017.0/debian/rules
debian/rules binary 2>&1

it gets stuck for a long time, i waited for about 1 hour and nothing happened, is its normal ?

Thanks

I finished the script and everything worked fine until I tried running Maya for the first time. I got a color management error, it could not load “shared_catalog.cat”. Ran Maya as root (sudo maya) once and it works perfectly now, even when running it as regular user. Just sharing my experience for anyone that may be having issues!

Tried to install this on Ubuntu 17.10, successfully installed. But when I type : maya
its error : Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I already added
MAYA_DISABLE_CIP=1
LC_ALL=C
but it didn't do anything.

Also tried cd into /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/ then run ./maya.bin
its error :
maya: Autodesk Maya 2017Licensing ErrorA licensing error occurred that Autodesk systems were not able to handle for you. Please contact Autodesk Customer Support for help in resolving this error.GetFeatureAuthorizationStatus 1 (Failure)

Any idea guys ?? Cheers

I was getting fatal error during maya launch

Graphic device does not support OpenGL Core Profile, fallback to OpenGL renderer.
Stack trace:
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libOGSDeviceOGL-16.so(+0x43309) [0x7f75b12f4309]
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libOGSDeviceOGL-16.so(+0x38e1a) [0x7f75b12e9e1a]
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libOGSDeviceOGL-16.so(+0x2453d) [0x7f75b12d553d]
  OGS::Devices::Sys::CreateVirtualDevice(OGS::Devices::ACreationParameters*)
  CreateOGSDevice(OGS::Devices::ACreationParameters*)
  OGSRenderer::initializeOGSDevice(OGS::Objects::UString*, int)
  OGSMayaRenderer::initialize(OGSRenderer::DeviceAPI, int, void*, void*, void*, bool)
  OGSMayaBridge::CreateOGSRenderer()
  OGSMayaBaseRenderer::initialize()
  OGSViewportRenderer::initialize()
  OGSMayaBridge::Create3DViewportRenderer()
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/maya.bin() [0x417d9b]
  Tapplication::start()
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/maya.bin() [0x40ee50]
  main
  __libc_start_main
  /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/maya.bin() [0x40e6ed]

I fixed it with
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-390/libGL.so /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/

hey, Borgfriend!

thank you so much for the script. I tried to adapt it to maya 2016 (the latest version I have a license for) and it ran with no real issues. When I try to start maya up, however, I get the following:

Stack trace:
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x354b0) [0x7fccbb1ce4b0]
  OGS::Devices::GL3FunctionTable::populate()
  OGS::Devices::GL3Context::PopulateFunctionTable(OGS::Devices::ACreationParameters const*)
  OGS::Devices::VirtualDeviceGL3::CreateDevice(OGS::Devices::ACreationParameters const*)
  OGS::Devices::Sys::CreateVirtualDevice(OGS::Devices::ACreationParameters*)
  OGSRenderer::initializeOGSDevice(OGS::Objects::UString*, int)
  OGSMayaRenderer::initialize(OGSRenderer::DeviceAPI, int, void*, void*, void*, bool)
  OGSMayaBridge::CreateOGSRenderer()
  OGSMayaBaseRenderer::initialize()
  OGSViewportRenderer::initialize()
  OGSMayaBridge::Create3DViewportRenderer()
  /usr/autodesk/maya2016/bin/maya.bin() [0x41704b]
  Tapplication::start()
  /usr/autodesk/maya2016/bin/maya.bin() [0x40e6ff]
  main
  __libc_start_main
  /usr/autodesk/maya2016/bin/maya.bin() [0x40debd]

Fatal Error. Attempting to save in /usr/tmp/username.20180424.2151.ma
Writing crash report in /usr/tmp/username.20180424.2151.crash

Any Idea what could be going wrong? I am using the Nvidia third-party drivers.

@prashanthbhagavan, @TobiMayr: I had the same problem, it takes a while but the installation will eventually proceed.

When I install, everything goes through well and successful, but when I go to run it, I cannot find ANYTHING whatsoever.

@borgfriend Thanks for this script. It's work!

I use Deepin. I downloaded last version maya 2017 and executed all commands.
I just changed the symbolic links for libtiff.so, libssl.so and libcrypto.so.

Error when I execute the alien command
I'm using the KDE Neon (based ubuntu 18.04)

why not ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/rpm or better yet alias rpm=true

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-390/libGL.so /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/

thanks a million, your solution fixed my problem!

Hey eveyone, I am on installing Maya 2019 on a mint build, converted using alien ok then the last command failed as it counldn't find the archive, as like many asking questions on these kind of posts I come from a zero coding background, so need some help what do i need to do next?
p.s. I found the deb files they had been added to my home directory but not in a folder, so moved to a folder and seems to be installing.

Upon starting maya 2017, 2018 or 2019 (i have all 3 installed, and all 3 have the same issue) I get this
// Error: file: /usr/autodesk/maya2019/scripts/startup/initMainWindow.mel line 176: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //

// Error: line 0: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //

Upon further investigating, just typing in from PyQt4 import QtCore also fails. with
# Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: No module named PyQt4 #

I assume that's not supposed to be the case?

Upon starting maya 2017, 2018 or 2019 (i have all 3 installed, and all 3 have the same issue) I get this
// Error: file: /usr/autodesk/maya2019/scripts/startup/initMainWindow.mel line 176: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //

// Error: line 0: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //

Upon further investigating, just typing in from PyQt4 import QtCore also fails. with
# Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: No module named PyQt4 #

I assume that's not supposed to be the case?

I am also having this issue. Did you find a solution to it?

from PySide2 import QtWidgets
# Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: libpyside2-python2.7.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # 

Upon starting maya 2017, 2018 or 2019 (i have all 3 installed, and all 3 have the same issue) I get this
// Error: file: /usr/autodesk/maya2019/scripts/startup/initMainWindow.mel line 176: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //
// Error: line 0: ImportError: file /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/site-packages/maya/app/general/mayaMixin.py line 35: libpyside2.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, No module named PyQt4.QtCore //
Upon further investigating, just typing in from PyQt4 import QtCore also fails. with
# Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: No module named PyQt4 #
I assume that's not supposed to be the case?

I am also having this issue. Did you find a solution to it?

from PySide2 import QtWidgets
# Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: libpyside2-python2.7.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # 

That's a Python issue, try this:

mv /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/rhel_hashlib.so

ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/autodesk/maya2019/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so

I figured out the issue. The solution was specifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is done automagically in the standard maya launcher, but that crashes/fails for 2017 & 2018. The solution I found there was to write my own launcher script. Like so:

#!/bin/sh
maya_loc=/usr/autodesk/maya2018/
export MAYA_LOCATION=$maya_loc

# Set up the location of the DSO's and run
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$maya_loc/lib/

# DISABLE CIP
export MAYA_DISABLE_CIP=1
 
# Launch Maya!
$maya_loc/bin/maya.bin

However, if you want to use the proper launcher method, I found the 2019 launcher works for 2017 & 2018. So I've copied the code here as well:

#!/bin/bash -f
#Tag 0x00C98a00
#*
#*+***********************************************************************
#*
#*  Module:
#*	maya
#*
#*-***********************************************************************
#*

maya_exec=maya.bin


#
#  Determine if launched from the desktop or a shell.  This will tell
#  us how to display error messages later.
#

tty=1

OSname=$(/bin/uname -s)

if [ "$OSname" = Linux ]; then
        lib=lib
        lsFlags='-l'
else
        echo "Maya is not supported on $OSname."
        exit 1
fi

#
#       Parse the argument list
#

mayaArgs=""
mayaApp=""
debuggerArgs=""

while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
    do
    key="$1"

    case $key in
       -d)
            if [ $# -le 1 ]; then
                if [ $tty = 1 ]; then
                    echo "No debugger specified"
                fi
            fi
            shift
            dbgApp=$1
            ;;
        -dbgArg)
            shift
            debuggerArgs="${debuggerArgs} $1"
            ;;
        -data)
            mayaArgs="${mayaArgs} $1"
            ;;
        -d*)
            dbgApp=$(echo "$1" | cut -c3-)
            ;;
        *)
            # unknown option
            mayaArgs="${mayaArgs} '$1'"
            ;;
    esac
  shift # past argument or value
done


#
#  If the MAYA_LOCATION is set, use it.  Otherwise, determine it.
#
if [ ! -z ${MAYA_LOCATION+x} ]; then
    if [ -x ${MAYA_LOCATION}/bin/${maya_exec} ]; then
        maya=${MAYA_LOCATION}/bin/${maya_exec}
    else
        unset MAYA_LOCATION
    fi
fi



if [ -z ${MAYA_LOCATION+x} ]; then
    #
    #  Create the full pathname of the invoked binary.
    #

    if [[ "$0" == /* ]]; then
                me="$0"
    else
                me=$(pwd)/$0
    fi

    #
    #  If it's a link, find the actual file.
    #  Follow the link(s) until an acutal file is found

    while [ -h "$me" ]; do
        linkdirname=$(dirname "$me")
        me=$(ls "$lsFlags" "$me" | tr ' ' '\012' | tail -n 1)
        if [[ ! "$me" == /* ]]; then
            me="$linkdirname/$me"
        fi
    done

    #
    #  Binary should be in $MAYA_LOCATION/bin.  Verify that.
    #

    bindir=$(dirname "$me")
    if [ -d "$bindir" ]; then
                bindir=$(cd "$bindir"; echo "$PWD")
    fi
    binfile=$(basename "$bindir")
    if [ "$binfile" == "bin" ]; then
        # We cannot call export directly if there are spaces in the Path.
        # We must use a temp variable.
        maya_loc=$(dirname "$bindir")
        export MAYA_LOCATION="$maya_loc"
        if [ -x "${MAYA_LOCATION}/bin/${maya_exec}" ]; then
            maya="${MAYA_LOCATION}/bin/${maya_exec}"
        else
            unset MAYA_LOCATION
        fi
    fi
fi

#
#  This allows Maya to save SGI format image files with matte.

export WF_IMF_SGI_MATTE=1

#
#	101914: color correction needed for Cineon files.

export WF_IMF_CIN_CORRECTION=both
export WF_IMF_CIN_WHITE_POINT=685

# Set up the location of the libquicktime plugins
export LIBQUICKTIME_PLUGIN_DIR="$MAYA_LOCATION/lib/libquicktime"

# Turn on tablet event compression by default to solve viewport 
export QT_COMPRESS_TABLET_EVENTS=1

#
# Set up the location of the DSO's and run
#
if [ "$MAYA_LOCATION" ]; then
    if [ ! -z ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+x} ]; then
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAYA_LOCATION/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
    else
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAYA_LOCATION/lib"
    fi

    # Prepend modules lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH
    # See Manitoba/Apps/maya.cpp for OSX
    for moduleDir in "$MAYA_LOCATION/plug-ins"/* ; do
        if [ -d "$moduleDir" ] && [ -d "$moduleDir/lib" ]; then
            if [ ! -z ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+x} ]; then
                export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$moduleDir/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
            else
                export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$moduleDir/lib"
            fi
        fi
    done

        if [ "$mayaApp" != "" ]; then
                maya="${mayaApp}";
        fi

    if [ -x "$maya" ]; then
        if [ ! -z ${dbgApp+x}  ]; then
            #echo "debugging: ${maya}"
            export AW_DEBUGGING=F
            export MAYA_DEBUG_NO_SIGNAL_HANDLERS=1
            echo "Executing: ${dbgApp} ${debuggerArgs} ${maya}"
            if [[ ! "${mayaArgs}" =~ "" ]]; then
                echo "Maya args: ${mayaArgs}"
            fi
            eval "${dbgApp}" "${debuggerArgs}" "${maya}" "${mayaArgs}"
            exit "$?"
        else
            #echo "running: ${maya}"
            noSpaceMaya=$(echo $maya | sed -e 's/ /\\ /g')
            eval "$noSpaceMaya" "${mayaArgs}"
            exit "$?"
        fi
    fi
fi

if [ ! $maya ]; then
    set maya = "${maya_exec}"
fi

if [ "$tty" == 1 ]; then
    echo The Maya executable \(\`${maya}\'\) cannot be found
fi
exit 1


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#* and  incorporate this code  into  other  products  for purposes authorized
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#*
#* Alias Systems Corp. disclaims all warranties with regard to this software,
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#*-

Just copy that into your maya bin folder i.e. "/usr/autodesk/maya2018/bin" and save it as "maya2018" or whatever version your using. If its in the same location as maya.bin it should work. You may need to overwrite the one that's there.

You may need to then make sure you run Jibwood's solution to the python hashlib issue:

mv /usr/autodesk/maya2018/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so /usr/autodesk/maya2018/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/rhel_hashlib.so

ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/autodesk/maya2018/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so

maya: Autodesk Maya 2017Licensing ErrorA licensing error

hi, did you fix it now? I got the same problem now!
and I have tried like this "maya /usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/adlmreg -i N ----- ----- 2017.0.0.F ----- /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017/MayaConfig.pit" and "/usr/autodesk/maya2017/bin/adlmreg -i N ------ ------ 2017.0.0.F ----- /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2017/MayaConfig.pit"
(https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Unable-to-launch-Maya-on-Linux-error-error-checkoutLicense-Failed-to-authorize-license.html)
they all not work and got new problem
"libadlmutil.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

please help me