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

Thank you @meepzh, i've tried the commands from the maya.install file, but it is still giving me the crash.

@ttc0419, I don't recall having to install any opencl packages in my VM, but I can't seem to open it anymore, and the VM may have required them to begin with. I'll fix it up and check this weekend. Thanks for calling that out.

@Redwolf, I don't seem to be having any issues, but I'll check this issue as well when I get the VM up and running. I do wonder if it might be licensing-related, since I personally made that mistake earlier. I've updated maya.install just now to get that working for 2024, in case you haven't run those commands that already.

Hi guys, i've installed the new maya 2024 version, but i'm getting the error: 13998 segmentation fault (core dumped). Running it with the --single-process flag doesn't work. Any help? thank you

Running gdb using the -prompt flag works.

@meepzh Cloud you confirm the issue in the last a few comments? If so, the package should depend on opencl-driver now.

I got it! I uninstalled every package related to opencl, maybe there was some conflict with opencl-nvidia and the other packages (as usual)

I ran into the same issue after upgrading my system a few days ago. I noticed clinfo also freezes, so that confirms it was an issue with OpenCL. I believe what fixed it was installing rocm-opencl-runtime (I have an AMD gpu), as both clinfo and Maya now run fine. Maybe there's an Nvidia equivalent?

Hi, I'm not able to run Maya. I think this a OpenCL problem (nvidia) since this is the last line when trying to run: OpenCL evaluator is attempting to initialize OpenCL.

Is anyone having the same issue?

EDIT: Figured it out. I had to unset QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;x11. So is it impossible to run Maya in Wayland?

@mac666er I'm running into the ADLSDK_STATUS_LICENSE_CHECKOUT_ERROR but only have a single locale uncommented in /etc/locale.gen. LC_ALL is also set to en_US.UTF-8. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Here's my logs:

$ /usr/autodesk/maya2023/bin/maya2023                     


/usr/autodesk/maya2023/bin/maya.bin: /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2023/lib/libOpenImageIOMaya.so.2.3)
maya: Autodesk MAYA 2023

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/MayaCLM-10-02-2023.log"

cat /usr/tmp/MayaCLM-10-02-2023.log                                             
2023-02-10 16:01:42: ====== BEGIN MAYA CLM LICENSE DIAGNOSTICS (level 2) ======
2023-02-10 16:01:42: INFO: MAYA VERSION: Autodesk MAYA 2023.3
2023-02-10 16:01:42: INFO: Desktop Licensing Runtime Version: 6.3.1.44
2023-02-10 16:01:42: INFO: Desktop Licensing API version in Maya: 6.3.1.44
2023-02-10 16:01:42: INFO: initialize: GetInstance (Success)
2023-02-10 16:02:43: INFO: Received LicenseUpdateCallback for Maya 2023 (ADLSDK_UPDATE_REASON_LICENSE_UPDATE): NOT Authorized
2023-02-10 16:02:43: ERROR: Error Information: Maya 2023 : timed-out after 30.0 sec(s) waiting for Agent to connect
2023-02-10 16:02:43: ERROR: adlsdkAuthorize returned with error code: ADLSDK_STATUS_LICENSE_CHECKOUT_ERROR
2023-02-10 16:02:43: ERROR: checkinLicense: unable to release authentication handle
2023-02-10 16:02:43: INFO: shutdown: normal exit

Also, this is rather obscure, but in Arch-linux, if using different system locales, then the authorization tool will NOT run:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/linux-adlsdk-status-license-checkout-error-on-kde-working-on/m-p/11653363#M95785

I had to set a single system locale for it to launch successfully for the first time.

installed this today and this repo was also extremely helpful:

https://github.com/MyHCel/Maya-For-Arch