HOUDINI APPRENTICE for gentoo

[co-D]

i managed to install houdini apprentice in gentoo with the following instructions

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mkdir /etc/rcX.d
ln -s /etc /etc/rc.d
ln -s /etc/rcX.d /etc/rc1.d
ln -s /etc/rcX.d /etc/rc2.d
ln -s /etc/rcX.d /etc/rc3.d
ln -s /etc/rcX.d /etc/rc4.d
ln -s /etc/rcX.d /etc/rc5.d

tar -zxvf  hfs-6.0.286-linux7.tar.gz
cd Linux7

this will allow you install houdini, and the sesinetd license server, but will fail to start the license server

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./houdini.install

#do the following while it's prompting that it's loading the license server configuration,or after you see it fail to obtain the information, because then it's practically done but failed to start the service

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/etc/init.d/sesinetd start

then proceed to obtain license keys

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tcsh
cd /usr/hfs6
source houdini_setup
hkey

go to File>Manually insert keys and go to http://license.sidefx.com/get_nc_license.php

enter Server name and Server Code as shown in Server Information tab

the Server should now be fully operational, so start houdini

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houdini

you could do the following, so you don't have to start the license server manually all the time

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rc-update add sesinetd default

to make life easier put one of these scripts in /usr/bin for each program, hhalo, houdini, hselect, hescape, hkey, and make it executable with chmod 755 /usr/bin/houdini. replace "houdini" with the program name but leave "source houdini_setup" the same in all scripts.

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#! /bin/tcsh -f

cd /usr/hfs6/
source houdini_setup
houdini

works for me

[RushFur]

yup..
That does it for me 2
good job bro

[teknomage1]

You're my Hero! I've been dual booting to mandrake just to make houdini work! Thank you!

on a side note to keep it working after reboot i had to make a fakesesi init script:
depend() {
after xdm
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting Sesinetd"
/etc/init.d/sesinetd start
eend $? "Sesi died argh..."
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping Sesinetd"
/etc/init.d/sesinetd stop
eend $? "Sesi won't die...Send reinforcemnets...sk..."
}


cause gentoo gripes if I add sesinetd to the initscripts

[krychu]

i have houdini 7.0.192 and it's not working, i have message:License Error: Unable to connect to hserver for license acquisition

[alexg123]

i have houdini 7.0.192 and it's not working, i have message:License Error: Unable to connect to hserver for license acquisition

Taking the information from here, this is the process that worked for me:

http://www.sidefx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14378#14378

This rehashes pretty much all of the information here except states the entire process that worked for me from installing, to getting the license server to start up on reboot to launching houdini.

HTH,

Alex