![]() This little tool enabled something that the entire workforce under Autodesk couldn’t achieve for many decades: making Maya work on DEB-based distro (granted there’s still like a metric ton of dependencies errors that can and will drive you crazy if you have to figure them all out on your own, but that’s why we’re here right?). Luckily for them, a genius called Christoph Lameter came in and saved the day with Alien – a package converter which is capable of converting RPMs to DEBs. I reckon it’s either they couldn’t afford a capable engineer, or the guy who’s responsible for maintaining Linux installers is too old to learn new technologies (as an old guy working in the tech industry myself, I deeply sympathize). And yet, for some reason, official Maya installer is still created with RPM in mind. But 20 years later, with the rise of Ubuntu and its DEB-based variants, the RPM distros now hold only a fraction of the market share. Maya is the only software in their lineup that is still currently being maintained for Linux, and even then it’s still using old packaging techniques from 20 years ago, made for RPM-based Linux distros (which made sense at the time since professional Linux distros are mostly RPM-based, Red Hat, CentOS, etc.). ![]() Unfortunately, for some reasons they still couldn’t hire a capable engineer who could create a half decent installer package for the Linux platform. Okay so this is pretty much a journal of how I managed to get Maya to run for the first time on one my my Linux boxes.Īs you may have know, Autodesk is one of the major names in the graphic and VFX industry, with their line-up of industry standard softwares like 3DS Max, Maya etc.
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