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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

Yo thanks for the reply "galaxy0419". However, I have found another solution. My problem was that not all dependencies were fulfilled.

I followed another tutorial and with this one it worked right on the 1st try.

Instruction 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/k3jz5a/how_to_install_maya_2020_renderman_23_on_manjaro/ Instruction 2. https://gist.github.com/mortenbh/38b8b30c4d7c190b9731fcd0e4497e47

I basically followed the 1 tutorial on Reddit. However, I used the shortcuts from the 2nd guide on Github.

Now all dependencies were fulfilled and it worked right away even with Arnold and Bifrost. I have not installed Renderman (just as a side note).

Maybe someone could make a nice script out of it so that there is no confusion all the time. ;)

PSS.: Note that some packages require a GPG key. The old servers used in the instructions etc. do not work. You have to look for an alternative. I used the GPG servers from Ubuntu (with sudo (for the user)). Just as a hint.

@SionSavior, please read the instructions to make sure every required packages are installed (adlmapps, adsklicensing and Maya at least). BTW, you need to start adsklicensing system service before starting Maya.

Yo, Today i tried to install Maya. I used this script: https://github.com/filmmakerto/arch-installmaya from filmmakerto. Everything works fine, but ... Maya doesn't start.

I mean i registered everything sudo /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/11.0.0.4854/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657N1 -pv 2022.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf path/to/mayaConfig.pit

Reboot And i tried to start maya.. but nothing .. not even a background process....

Maybe someone have a idea

Thanks @galaxy0419 for the installation instructions -- they pointed me in the right direction, but they didn't immediately make it clear to me what I have to do to install the package.

But I figured it out, and since I suspect there may be some other users who have the same problem, I wrote a little installation script: https://github.com/filmmakerto/arch-installmaya

Maybe it will help some people. Cheers

Oops, AdskLicensingInstHelper register actually requires root, as is described in AdskLicensingInstHelper -h. The problem solved as I uses sudo.

Hope this helps anyone who have fallen into the same pit lol

Following the instructions on the pinned message, I've got this when I tried to activate the product:

[libreliu@Legion-R7k aur]$ /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/9.2.1.2399/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657L1 -pv 2020.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf ./Autodesk_Maya_2020_4_ML_Linux_64bit/MayaConfig.pit 
Native call error in adlmPITSetProductInformation_2 28: Failed to Encrypt the PIT file

I've tried starting the adsklicensing service, but that doesn't help.

Running maya will result in the following error before starting the adsklicensing service:

/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libmayaOpenImageIO.so.2.0)
maya: Autodesk Maya 2020
A licensing error occurred that Autodesk systems were not able to handle for you. Please contact Autodesk Customer Support for help in resolving this error.
adlsdkAuthorize returned with error code: ADLSDK_STATUS_ADLS_NOT_FOUND
The default location for log files to help diagnose the issue is: /usr/tmp

and after:

/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2020/lib/libmayaOpenImageIO.so.2.0)
maya: Autodesk Maya 2020
A licensing error occurred that Autodesk systems were not able to handle for you. Please contact Autodesk Customer Support for help in resolving this error.
adlsdkAuthorize returned with error code: ADLSDK_STATUS_LICENSE_CHECKOUT_ERROR
The default location for log files to help diagnose the issue is: /usr/tmp

I've installed all the packages except RokokoMotionLibrary, and I put my pacman log here in case I've forgotten something:

[2021-03-21T00:14:23+0800] [ALPM] installed adlmapps (17.0.49-1)
[2021-03-21T00:14:55+0800] [ALPM] installed adsklicensing (9.2.1.2399-1)
[2021-03-21T00:15:24+0800] [ALPM] installed adlmflexnetclient (17.0.49-1)
[2021-03-21T00:15:49+0800] [ALPM] installed adlmflexnetserver-ipv6 (17.0.50-1)
[2021-03-21T00:16:42+0800] [ALPM] installed libjpeg6-turbo (1.5.3-2)
[2021-03-21T00:16:42+0800] [ALPM] installed libxp (1.0.3-4)
[2021-03-21T00:16:42+0800] [ALPM] installed xorg-fonts-alias-75dpi (1.0.4-1)
[2021-03-21T00:16:43+0800] [ALPM] installed xorg-fonts-75dpi (1.0.3-7)
[2021-03-21T00:16:43+0800] [ALPM] installed xorg-fonts-alias-100dpi (1.0.4-1)
[2021-03-21T00:16:43+0800] [ALPM] installed xorg-fonts-100dpi (1.0.3-7)
[2021-03-21T00:18:01+0800] [ALPM] installed libpng15 (1.5.30-1)
[2021-03-21T00:37:18+0800] [ALPM] installed maya (2020.4-1)
[2021-03-21T00:38:48+0800] [ALPM] installed maya-bifrost (2.2.0.0-1)
[2021-03-21T00:39:02+0800] [ALPM] installed maya-substance (2.1.7-1)
[2021-03-21T00:40:40+0800] [ALPM] installed maya-arnold (4.1.1-1)

@kalani Try to build the package using makepkg -si manually. AUR helpers does not support this package. You need to copy the rpms in AUR packages' build folders mentioned in the pinned comments respectively (e.g. copy Packages/adlmapps17-17.0.49-0.x86_64.rpm to adlmapps's build folder).

Where should I be placing the Packages/*.rpm files so they can be picked up and installed?

I have confirmed the filenames and checksums match. I then tried running "pacaur -S maya" from the working directory with the *.rpm files, which failed being unable to locate them. I then tried copying the RPM files to ~/.cache/pacaur/("adlmapps","adsklicensing","maya")/src/ directories, and to /tmp, each had no change in behavior.

Installation Instructions:
Autodesk Maya has updated the EULA for education version, see here for more info.

To get the latest version of maya, go to your account page and click "Product Updates" and download the linux tgz file.

Extract the tgz file into a folder.

Remove maya if you have version older than 2020.3 installed.

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 file to build some other packages as well:
1. MayaConfig.pit for product activation
2. Packages/adlmapps*.rpm to build adlmapps
3. Packages/adsklicensing*.rpm to build adsklicensing
4. Packages/adlmflexnetclient-*.rpm to build adlmflexnetclient (for network deployment only, most of you won't need this)
5. Packages/adlmflexnetserverIPV6-*.rpm to build adlmflexnetserver-ipv6 (for network deployment only, most of you won't need this)
6. Packages/Maya*.rpm to build this package
7. Packages/package.zip to build maya-arnold
8. Packages/Bifrost*.rpm to build maya-bifrost
9. Packages/RokokoMotionLibraryMaya*.rpm to build maya-rokoko-motion-library
10. Packages/SubstanceInMaya*.rpm to build maya-substance
11. Packages/MayaUSD2022*.rpm to build maya-usd

Note: Package 2 and 3 are required to use maya and 7 to 11 are plugins which can be installed when needed.

Activate the product using command with root /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/11.0.0.4854/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657N1 -pv 2022.0.0.F -el EN_US -cf /path/to/MayaConfig.pit

Start Autodesk licensing service on boot using systemctl enable adsklicensing.service or start the service before using maya using command systemctl start adsklicensing.service

Reboot

Enter your Autodesk account the first time you open it.

Cheers

@Dzordzu Yes, The previous version of maya include all components in one package. It is expected to have some conflicts. Please remove the old package before installing the new one.

@galaxy0419 I've tried to use your PKGBUILD, but it does not do well with an existing maya installation. There are loads of file conflicts (exists in filesystem (owned by maya))

Locations of the conflicts: opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/9.2.1.2399

Seems to be a problem with the pre_remove hook