I am offering these instructions for installing Maya 2020 Update 3 on Fedora 33 Linux to anyone that can benefit by them. The Autodesk guide located here and the further Autodesk guidance provided here were my starting point. However, those guides were not sufficient to complete the task. Consequently, I created the below instruction set to be a more complete installation reference. One should be able to follow the steps below and have a working installation of Maya 2020 Update 3 on Fedora 33 at the end. Please note that the instructions below are tailored for a workstation installation of Fedora 33. Modifications may be required for other Linux distros. Further, note that the instructions are only tested on the package versions listed in the instructions. The Maya, Bifrost, Substance in Maya and Rokoko Motion Library packages used below were contained in the Maya 2020 Update 3 Linux download from the Autodesk subscriptions download page.
WARNING: Fedora is not among Autodesk's supported Linux distributions.
1. Install required dependencies (some of these may already be installed)
sudo dnf install mesa-libGLw
sudo dnf install mesa-libGLU
sudo dnf install libXp
sudo dnf install libXmu
sudo dnf install libXt
sudo dnf install libXi
sudo dnf install libXext
sudo dnf install libX11
sudo dnf install libXinerama
sudo dnf install libXau
sudo dnf install libxcb
sudo dnf install libXScrnSaver
sudo dnf install gamin
sudo dnf install audiofile
sudo dnf install audiofile-devel
sudo dnf install e2fsprogs-libs
sudo dnf install libxkbcommon-x11
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
sudo dnf install liberation-mono-fonts
sudo dnf install liberation-fonts-common
sudo dnf install liberation-sans-fonts
sudo dnf install liberation-serif-fonts
sudo dnf install ncurses-compat-libs
sudo dnf install compat-openssl10
sudo dnf install libpng15
sudo dnf install libnsl
sudo dnf install nss
sudo dnf install glibc
sudo dnf install zlib
sudo dnf install libSM
sudo dnf install libICE
2. Download and install latest version of the Autodesk Licensing Service packages (found here)
NOTE: It is important to get the most recent version as there were changes to allow for signing in, rather than supplying serial numbers. I downloaded the following installer zip file version: adsklicensinginstaller-10.2.0.4231.zip
sudo dnf install adlmapps23-23.0.21-0.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install adsklicensing10.2.0.4231-0-0.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install adlmflexnetserverIPV6-23.0.21-0.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install adlmflexnetclient-23.0.21-0.x86_64.rpm
3. Verify licensing service status is "active (running)"
sudo systemctl status adsklicensing
3a. If not, start it using this command
/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensingService --run
3b. If still not running, set up licensing service manually.
sudo getent group adsklic &>/dev/null || sudo groupadd adsklic
sudo id -u adsklic &>/dev/null || sudo useradd -M -r -g adsklic adsklic -d / -s /usr/bin/nologin
sudo systemctl enable adsklicensing --quiet
sudo systemctl start adsklicensing
4. Install Maya 2020 Update 3
sudo dnf install Maya2020_64-2020.3-1431.x86_64.rpm
5. Register Maya with AdskLicensing service
sudo /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/10.2.0.4231/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657L1 -pv 2020.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2020/MayaConfig.pit
6. Install Bifrost 2020
sudo dnf install Bifrost2020-2.1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
7. Install Substance in Maya 2020
sudo dnf install SubstanceInMaya-2.1.2-2020-Linux.rpm
8. Install Rokoko Motion Library in Maya 2020
sudo dnf install RokokoMotionLibraryMaya-1.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm
9. Download and install Arnold for Maya 2020 (found here)
NOTE: Be sure to make the .run file executable (i.e., sudo chmod +x MtoA-4.0.4.2-linux-2020.run)
sudo ./MtoA-4.0.4.2-linux-2020.run
10. Launch Maya 2020 and login!
11. OPTIONAL: Add the following environment variables to the ~/maya/2020/Maya.env file
MAYA_DISABLE_CIP=1 (disables Autodesk Customer Involvement Program which causes shutdown delays)
LC_ALL=C (forces the use of the default language for output)
12. If you get the Color Management error popup "...Failed to finalize the color transform.", add the following environment variables to the Maya.env file:
MAYA_CM_DISABLE_ERROR_POPUPS=1
MAYA_COLOR_MGT_NO_LOGGING=1
Good Luck!
