Maya will not launch on Fedora 41, error while loading shared libraires libtiff.so.5

[blendernoob64]

Hi Maya forums,

I just updated my Linux computer to Fedora 41 (VR on Wayland was just too darn exciting to ignore) and everything is going smoothly, except Maya which will not launch, but did launch on Fedora 40. After diagnosing the problem by trying to launch from the Unix Terminal, I got an error saying this :

/usr/autodesk/maya2024/bin/mayabin: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.5 cannot open shared object file: No Such file or directory

So that made me think I must be missing that dependency, but after a dnf install libtiff, I found out I do have it installed, but instead the package is named libtiff.so.6, located in /usr/lib64 which I heard is where maya looks for its dependencies. So then I thought that maya.bin must not be able to find libtiff given that its a different name. A suggestion I found is that I should make a new symlink to libtiff.so.6 and that should fool Maya into using that instead of the other libtiff, but I have no idea where to make this symlink or if that even matters in the first place. Does any one have suggestions as to what I should do? Should I make a symlink to libtiff, if so where should I put it? Where does Maya.bin look for these links? Should I just suck it up and install Maya again? Thanks

[nelsoncruz · Accepted solution]

As you have already discovered Fedora 41 provides libtiff.so.6.  A potential solution is to create a symlink to get Maya to read this as the prober library.  I would suggest creating the symlink in the Maya lib directory so not to mix this workaround with system calls.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.6 /usr/autodesk/maya2026/lib/libtiff.so.5

Maya is setup to look at both system library paths and its own.  Please remember none of this is officially supported as you are operating outside of what Maya is built on.