New linux user

[daniel]

Hi everybody,
I recently tryed installing Ubuntu Hoary on my computer and it works quite fine. I use to work on maya at school, so I wanted to give a try on linux and smbd lend me a linux install cd. I've seen several posts about Maya under debian here, and since ubuntu is based on it I thought it was possible. I used alien as following "alien -d -i ", first with AW and then with the maya 6.5 package. Everything seemed to work fine even if it took quite a long time. I can now find an usr/aw/maya6.5 directory. My main problem is that...... er.... I don't know how to launch it, can't find any executable file or something similar (noob synaptic/gnome user, please don't blame me ). Docs only mention "type maya in shell or use desktop icon"...
Later I found this (http://www.highend2d.com/boards/showflat.php?Cat=1,6,7,8,9&Board=linuxforum&Number=189551&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=), seems very complicated and don't mention where to launch maya anyway. When does license is asked? don't got any message during rpm install.
Sorry, this subject shows up many times in here, but got nowhere else to go...snif

[knecht]

I installed maya 6.5 by doing the following steps:

1. Convert all .rpm to .deb
   alien -k -c package.rpm

2. Install them (order is not important)
   dpkg -i package.deb

I got an error by installing the maya package (cannot make symlink error), and solved that by make this link:
ln -s /usr/aw /aw

1. Start maya, just open a konsole, and type "maya" in there and press enter. Maybe you have to make your own icon on desktop, on my PC he don't make a starticon. (the bin files are in /usr/aw/maya/bin)

When Maya starts the fist time it take a look if a license is in folder /var/flexlm (named aw.dat). If there is no he asks you what he should do. And there you can install your license (choose "all tasks", then "install the license"). IMPORTANT: Don't just copy a aw.dat in /var/flexlm !!! Maya needs to do this by itself !! Place your license file elsewhere and make "all tasks" --> "install the license"

After succesful doing that, close the window, and start maya again.

And now everything should run

greetings
knecht