Arch Linux User Repository

Many thanks to ttc0419 for getting this set up and for writing these instructions originally. Many thanks to jimmy_christensenMSURY for fixing the Maya 2025+ licensing.

Installation Instructions:

Go to your Autodesk account Products and Services and save the Linux tgz file to any location of your choice. You will also need v1.15 of the Autodesk Identity Manager from Product Updates.

Extract the tgz files to any location of your choice.

Maya is now split into several packages as it is for the official rpm installation. You will need the following files from the extracted tgz files to build some other packages as well:

1. (required) Packages/adlmapps*.rpm to build adlmapps
2. (required) Packages/adskidentitymanager*.rpm to build adskidentitymanager
3. (required) Packages/adsklicensing*.rpm to build adsklicensing
4. (required) Packages/Maya*.rpm to build this package
5. (optional) Packages/package.zip to build maya-arnold
6. (optional) Packages/Bifrost*.rpm to build maya-bifrost
7. (optional) Packages/AdobeSubstance3DforMaya*.rpm to build maya-substance
8. (optional) Packages/MayaUSD*.rpm to build maya-usd-bin, if you don't want to download directly from GitHub
9. (optional) Packages/LookdevX.rpm to build maya-lookdevx

Packages 1 and 3 are required to use Maya and 5 to 9 are plugins that can be installed when needed.

You will need to move the rpm files to the directory containing the corresponding package's PKGBUILD file. Please refer to the AUR wiki for further installation details, since AUR helpers may or may not work with this package.

After installation, you may wish to enable the Autodesk Licensing service with systemctl enable adsklicensing.service. This service is started automatically one time when installing and removing this package.

Note that the install file will automatically register and deregister Maya with the licensing service if you are using the adsklicensing package. You may need to restart the adsklicensing service and reinstall Maya if adsklicensing was upgraded and running at the same time.

Launch Maya and log into your Autodesk account or enter your product serial to check out a license. Note that Wayland is currently not supported by the licensing software.

Please note that the Maya executable is patched to launch with the --single-process flag to address launch issues with the Application Home. You may try to opt out of this patch if this does not present an issue for you.

Troubleshooting:

If you are having the following font error, Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //, first try the Autodesk recommended commands with your normal permissions.

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

(source)

If you are still seeing font errors, you can try one or more of the following:

1. Install xorg-mkfontscale and run mkfontscale in /usr/share/fonts. Then re-run the xset commands above.
2. Try running the xset commands with superuser permissions.
3. Try enabling and generating the following locales: en_GB ISO-8859-1 en_US ISO-8859-1

If you are having licensing errors, you can refer to this comment/forum post by mac666er recommending you to only use the en_US.UTF-8 locale. Or you may need to set a different default browser as Tellik experienced.

If your launch process hangs at the OpenCL initialization, you may wish to check for OpenCL conflicts as mentioned in this comment by TheSunCat. You may also need to rename/delete the intel-openapi icd file in /etc/OpenCL/vendors as mentioned here.

If you see a black screen, check that Wayland is disabled: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/maya-2025-2026-on-linux/td-p/13617041

Cheers

@abrasmelin, that output is expected. If you have more output from the terminal or from the logs in the /tmp folder, that would be helpful in debugging. Thanks!

maya 2026 still not working. there is a problem with libxml here is the output I am getting /usr/autodesk/maya2026/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available

Got it working yesterday! ...today its broken again...[fixed] it ask libxml2.so.2 ...

Back to yesterday, i had to update the adsklicensing, identity manager, manually register it, then i started the trial :) I installed arnold using the autodesk installer. Now i need a workaround for that libxml... edit: Fixed doing: ln -s "/usr/lib/libxml2.so.16.0.2" "/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2" So far it works.

It seems like jimmy_christensenMSURY was able to get Maya 2026 working on Ubuntu in the forum thread here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/can-t-login-with-autodesk-id-sso-on-linux/m-p/13445338#M103026 though the forum is down for maintenance this weekend. It involves a fake RPM for webkit2gtk3 and /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt. I'll try and reproduce his work for Arch.

edit: I am able to get it working. Will update the packages...

To reiterate what jimmy_christensenMSURY has found, it appears that the licensing software uses the rpm command to check for webkit2gtk3. I haven't confirmed if it specifically needs webkit2gtk3, but I do know that the version number of webkit2gtk3 is not checked because a 1.0.0 dummy package satisfies the requirements. The adsklicensing package installs a dummy version of this rpm package for you. The Arch version of webkit2gtk is used by the identity manager, so it is a real requirement. Upon accomplishing that, the licensing software will search for /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt. As jimmy_christensenMSURY described, symlinking the operating system's crt file satisfies this requirement. I also found that the identity manager crashes until version 1.15, which as Autodesk describes, updates dependencies, which likely aligns with Arch's versions. If I recall correctly, much of this information is relayed by the logs from Maya CLM. And that is sufficient to get Maya licensing working again.

Maya 2026 released! maya2025 may be stable now!

Anyway, could the adsklicensing not working and the SSO(login) not working be two different problems ?

To clarify further my post earlier:

• I manage several workstations and servers for visual FX. I use Maya almost daily. I have servers/workstations with redhat/ubuntu/arch/windows/Mac and a couple of other more esoteric environments. Have installed Maya on all for years. My favorite environment is Arch :)

As of March 2025, I believe Maya for linux, whether 2025 or earlier, only works out of the box in redhat. Autodesk has published how-tos to install maya in Ubuntu, sure, they have done it for years. It used to work for Maya 2024 in ubuntu, but not anymore. How do I know? Because they have the same errors we Arch peeps are having:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/installing-maya-on-ubuntu-20-04-6-lts/td-p/13013969

I reproduced the above issues and came to the same solution, just use redhat if you really need Maya up and running in linux.

I think I can summarize it as this: Autodesk is trying to enforce continuous updated licensing (probably to combat fraud/piracy) and support tools, even for 2024 or earlier versions, which breaks them if the underlying environment doesn't have all the libraries that are quite old now. I have run into this many times over the years. Usually fonts are broken, or character sets, or ssl sockets, but now, I think a library or libraries needed by licensing are not working outside of redhat.

Here, this is usually what people encounter:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/installing-maya-2025-2-on-ubuntu-22-04/td-p/12937606

My post jumped over the above details to kind of argue that (one of) the culprit(s) maybe glibc. I think as long as Autodesk, doesn't make Autodesk licensing work with newer libraries, we will be stuck in this. This is really my only point. That Autodesk has issues with library compatibilities that are newer than what they are deploying and targeting for.

To clarify my earlier post - I was specifically investigating why Maya 2024 stopped working on Arch Linux after a glibc 2.41 update.