[Brett Morgan]

Great Idea Lee, personally I detest rpm, but i understand that a lot of apps distribute their software like that, a tgz would be better and it takes about 5 seconds to build a dpkg, I guess thats up to nextlimit, I would really like to see a more comprehensive installation instruction set for us linux users, not everyone is comfortable in this environment and if the documentation left no room for error, for example with a default installation, how exactly to edit your environmental variables etc.

Thats up to the nexlimit crew though

Brett

[Brett Morgan]

Lee, I know exactly what you mean, the troubleshooting install guide is all for windows(found in the mayall plugin)

This is all we have:

In this chapter you can get information about how to install Mayall in a Linux System
You can setup and get Mayall running in a few steps

Mayall for linux comes in a RPM package.
To install it in your system you only need to use the next command:
rpm -ivh --nodeps mayall-0.9-2.rpm
You can substitute the file name mayall-0.9-2.rpm with the file you have downloaded.
At the end of your installation you are warned to setup your environment with the next variables:

* MAYALL_ROOT=/usr/NextLimit/Maxwell/plugins/Maya
* MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH=/usr/NextLimit/Maxwell/plugins/Maya
* MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH=/usr/NextLimit/Maxwell/plugins/Maya
* XBMLANGPATH=/usr/NextLimit/Maxwell/plugins/Maya/%B

Now Mayall is installed and ready to be used, you only have to launch Maya and open the Plug-In Manager. If you MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH is right then you can see the /usr/NextLimit/Maxwell/plugins/Maya directory and the Mayall plugin for Maya 6.0 (mayall60.so) and for Maya 6.5 (maya65.so).

Some more comprehensive stuff on env variables, even taken from a couple of posts in this forum would help greatly!!

Cheers

Brett

[tikal26]

hey I also understand. I use ubuntu and I had to follows someones instruction on the forum to do it. I am really gratefull that someone posted instructions. Anyway I understand why they provide rpms but the ubuntu is changing the world of linux and providing .deb packages might be a good idiea. houdini provides ubuntu packages (one of the very few) so maxwell might want to think about that. I don't think that it would be very hard to do it