Install Maya 2020, Arnold and Bifrost on Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04)

Install_Maya_2020_Arnold_Bifrost_on_Ubuntu_Focal_Fossa_(20.04).md

Download and install dependencies

sudo apt install wget alien libjpeg62 libcurl4 libaudiofile1 libtinfo5 python mesa-opencl-icd xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/libssl1.0.2_1.0.2u-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb
wget https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/33/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/l/libpng15-1.5.30-11.fc33.x86_64.rpm

fakeroot alien -vc libpng15-1.5.30-11.fc33.x86_64.rpm

sudo dpkg -i libpng15_1.5.30-12_amd64.deb libssl1.0.2_1.0.2u-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeehio/libxp
sudo apt-get install libxp6

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi
xset fp rehash

Download Maya, Arnold, Bifrost

Navigate to manage.autodesk.com in your browser and download Maya 2020 and Arnold and Bifrost for Maya 2020.

tar zxvf Autodesk_Maya_2020_ML_Linux_64bit.tgz
chmod +x Bifrost_2.2.0.1_Maya2020_Linux.run
./Bifrost_2.2.0.1_Maya2020_Linux.run

Accept the terms and press 2 to extract the package content.

fakeroot alien -vc Packages/Maya2020_64-2020.0-235.x86_64.rpm Packages/adsklicensing9.2.1.2399-0-0.x86_64.rpm Bifrost-2.2.0.1-maya-2020/Bifrost2020-2.2.0.1-2.2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo dpkg -i maya2020-64_2020.0-236_amd64.deb adsklicensing9.2.1.2399_0-1_amd64.deb bifrost2020-2.2.0.1_2.2.0.1-2_amd64.deb
chmod +x MtoA-4.1.1.1-linux-2020.run
sudo ./MtoA-4.1.1.1-linux-2020.run

Press 1 and install Arnold in the default location.

Setup Maya

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libGL.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.2 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libssl.so.10
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libcrypto.so.10
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudiofile.so.1 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libaudiofile.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libpng15.so.15 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libpng15.so.15

sudo mkdir /usr/tmp/
sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp/

Setup licensing

sudo cp /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/9.2.1.2399/AdskLicensingService/adsklicensing.el7.service /etc/systemd/system/adsklicensing.service
sudo systemctl enable adsklicensing --quiet
sudo /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/9.2.1.2399/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657L1 -pv 2020.0.0.F -el en_us -cf /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2020/MayaConfig.pit
/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/<version_number>/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper list

Run Maya

maya

For my future self and anyone like me who unexpectedly needs to support Maya 2020, the above did not work for me on Ubuntu 22. I instead had to build libssl-1.0.0 and symlink to it instead.

cd $HOME
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openssl-1.0.0.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.0
./config && make && make test

# In case you followed the official Autodesk tutorial already, these can be removed
sudo rm /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libcrypto.so.10
sudo rm /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libssl.so.10

sudo ln -s $HOME/openssl-1.0.0/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libcrypto.so.10
sudo ln -s $HOME/openssl-1.0.0/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libssl.so.10