50$ (discussable) Bounty for building Autodesk Maya package

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And i am trying to install Autodesk Maya.
There is no package built :confused:

I am trying to make it work through RockyLinux (it is officially supported) in docker, but it still doesn’t work due to lack of rich autodesk linux documentation (So currently in contact with Autodesk support) :confused:

There is codewaivers “CrossOver” project that heavily supports wine, it supports most application (even Adobe Acrobat) on linux… but the package is kinda in stalled development [Packaging requests] CrossOver · Issue #209545 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub But also, it is really quirky solution due to it being windows compatibility layer.

So i put 50$ (payment and price can be discussed) for building the Autodesk Maya 2026 for nixos.

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From the looks the cross over package request. There was works on it, but however a pr wasn’t made so it is closed for now.

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  1. Which version of Maya are you trying to package?
  2. Do you have a “user license” or a “network license”?
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Hi. Sorry for really late reply, i had a small trip, and only now returned.

I have a student license. I was trying to install maya 2026.2 , but 2025 and 2024 is ok too :slight_smile:

I guess the bounty is too low, so you can tell me what would be the reasonable price. 100$?

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Maybe you have more luck to just use nix-ld? Than you might not need a package. Don’t know how large the binary is. For some fpga ides, this was the only usable way.

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Hi!

At my company (Animaj), we successfully packaged Maya 2024 for Linux using Nix and Docker. We’ve open-sourced our work here: GitHub - animaj-lab/maya4linux: Dockerfile and Nix Flake for running Maya on Linux

We also attempted to package Maya 2026.2, but we’re currently stuck due to the new licensing system. If anyone has experience with this, we’d be very happy to get some help! I’ll soon open a branch with our current attempt to package Maya 2026.2.

Regarding the bounty, we are not interested in claiming it, and we would gladly let anyone who manages to get a working Docker or Nix derivation for Maya 2026 take it. (of course, assuming TechnoLukas agrees with this approach).

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Hi. Wow, Awesome project!! Hm… yeah, personally i was trying with 2026 and it did not work :slight_smile: Lol, i was lazy to test 2024 version :confused: . Yes, the docker solution worked very nicely. I was able to login with my autodesk acount, and everything. But i was not able to load into 3d editor itself… it gave some weird “nouveau” errors. Seems like like it didn’t detect my nvidia drivers

The flake solution does’t work for me… i am experimenting with it.

Yes, everything sound awesome. Big thank you for sharing your solution with community! :smile:

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Hi,
I’ve committed a few instructions to help with debugging. If you’re still encountering issues, you might have better luck using the nix develop command.
On my computer, I’ve added the nix files to my main system configuration and this solution had been quite stable. But now that I think about it, I also have nix-ld that add some impurity (nix-ld is configured with the lib of steam-run, if it can help)

For troubleshooting, the licensing service logs can be found in: /var/opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensingService/Log/. These logs are very useful for investigating problems.

Feel free to share more details about the error you’re seeing, and I’ll be happy to take a closer look :slight_smile: (here or in a github issue)

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Thanks for updating the README.md , adding /var/opt/Autodesk and /usr/tmp solved it :slight_smile: Awesome.

Also i added some quick notes to customize paths (i created issue on github) if someone want to change the original system paths.