Package Details: renderman 27.1.2389102-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/renderman.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: renderman
Description: Proprietary photorealistic 3D rendering software produced by Pixar Animation Studios
Upstream URL: https://renderman.pixar.com
Licenses: custom
Submitter: furby
Maintainer: furby (meepzh)
Last Packager: meepzh
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2020-12-29 07:32 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-18 05:34 (UTC)

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meepzh commented on 2024-04-15 05:11 (UTC)

If you have rpm-tools installed, then this package will install the downloaded rpms for you.

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meepzh commented on 2025-11-28 20:39 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining your workflow, mac666er, that makes sense to me now! I appreciate you testing and flagging these dependencies, and I agree that working with pacman is the preferable way to go. I look forward to any more contributions you'd like to share!

mac666er commented on 2025-11-28 19:46 (UTC)

I see no issues in general. In the past I did not use this installer and downloaded one package at a time and install with the help from AUR and it all mostly worked (what was missing was copying the module for maya and setting up variables for Houdini).

This time I decided to check this installer out and run it and it mostly worked. I don't recommend it for arch though, because it does indeed automatically install pro server and tractor and does NOT install plugins for blender, maya and houdini. And what I mean by that is if within the installer I select to install: license, pro server, tractor, plugin for maya, plugin for houdini and plugin for blender it installs the first two automatically and the last four it just downloads. I find this behavior inconvenient. I would rather go through pacman for managing all packages.

I think all the AUR packages (renderman and others) are in great shape and I think arch has the advantage that with a minimal installation I can figure out required dependencies and issues much quicker than in redhat or ubuntu. Another great advantage is the community, most package maintainers are on top of issues for their packages. Thanks for all the work you do!! Hence why I try to help with identifying new dependencies.

Thanks!!

meepzh commented on 2025-11-15 01:01 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-15 01:03 (UTC) by meepzh)

Thanks for sharing, mac666er. They had a site issue earlier, where only the Mac and Windows versions were available under a false 26.3 name, but it like it's resolved now!

The renderman-pro-server adds that symlink. Are you seeing any issues with how it's implemented for you? I'll work on updating the pkgbuilds now.

mac666er commented on 2025-11-14 23:13 (UTC)

Hi!

Pixar doesn't provide the download link automatically. Normally, you need to request an upgrade through their page and then they make the links available.

I was able to install Renderman 27 today with a couple of caveats:

  1. The installer needed icu67, but after installing it through AUR, it did run in X11.
  2. The installer downloaded the packages AND installed automatically the server and Tractor. (I had previous versions installed, but I had to manually cleanup a couple of things. I found this weird.)
  3. XPU complained that it needed libncurses.so.6. Creating a link to libncursesw.so.6 solved the issue. I had run into this in previous versions.

No problems now with maya 2026 in X11 with renderman installer, pro server, renderman for maya and tractor (both engine and blades).

Note: If you decide to install icu67, it is incompatible with python3.13, you will have to install it with any previous version of python.

meepzh commented on 2025-11-14 05:24 (UTC)

I saw that RenderMan 27 was released, but it doesn't seem like they have provided a download for the Linux version yet. I'll keep checking back and update the page when it's available.

meepzh commented on 2025-06-12 09:46 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-12 09:46 (UTC) by meepzh)

Ah yes, thanks for that reminder.

I understand. I had a re-read of the wiki, and it seems that those dependencies are optional https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#depends I was told off for including them in another package some time ago, which is why I was hesitant now. But it's good to get a second opinion.

micwoj92 commented on 2025-06-11 16:59 (UTC)

This is just so all link dependencies are listed.
Please remove libidn and libicu50 these are not needed anymore.

meepzh commented on 2025-06-10 20:31 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-11 08:26 (UTC) by meepzh)

Thank you for flagging the update and the dependency list, micwoj92. I wouldn't expect packages like glibc to be listed. Would you mind elaborating please?

micwoj92 commented on 2025-06-10 20:20 (UTC)

Deps list should be: dbus fontconfig freetype2 gcc-libs glib2 glibc krb5 libdrm libglvnd libice libsm libx11 libxcb libxcomposite libxext libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11 wayland xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-renderutil xcb-util-wm zlib zstd

mac666er commented on 2025-01-13 20:21 (UTC)

@meepzh my pleasure. I have had a similar issue in Windows that I was never really able to flush out because there is no standard output. I worked with Pixar on it and I was not able to pinpoint it there, even with their help. Linux, was relatively easy, as it should be!

Now we are waiting to hear back from Autodesk on why their maya 2025 rpm package does not launch single sign on outside of redhat (I've read that it doesn't launch even in rocky) I suspect there is some weird library they use that auto-detects environment and then asks to launch a browser. If it doesn't detect redhat, it asks for Microsoft edge. Once they fix that and launches in ubuntu, rocky, etc, I think you will be able to update renderman for maya.

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