Installing Maya on Fedora 43+

Maya-On-Fedora-43.txt

1. Install an X11 Desktop - or Window Manager

2. install Maya's Libraries 
sudo dnf install libpng libjpeg libtiff freetype libXpm libXi fontconfig libXinerama alsa-lib libXcomposite libXdamage libXrandr libXrender libXtst libxcrypt-compat libxkbcommon nspr nss nss-util pciutils-libs libnsl xcb-util-wm xcb-util-image xcb-util-image xcb-util-renderutil libxkbcommon-x11 libmng libXcursor xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi audiofile-devel

3. install openssl1 
sudo dnf install https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/36/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/o/openssl1.1-1.1.1n-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm

sudo dnf install https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/36/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/o/openssl1.1-1.1.1n-1.fc36.i686.rpm

4. install javascriptcoregtk 
sudo dnf install https://dl..edoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/j/javascriptcoregtk4.0-2.47.2-3.fc42.x86_64.rpm'

sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/j/javascriptcoregtk4.0-2.47.2-3.fc42.i686.rpm

5. install webkit2gtk4 
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/w/webkit2gtk4.0-2.47.2-3.fc42.i686.rpm

sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/w/webkit2gtk4.0-2.47.2-3.fc42.x86_64.rpm

6. install rpm-development-tools 

7. install maya via the rpm packages. To install some packages we will need to use sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest ./package

For 2024 
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-E7E054E1-0E32-4B3C-88F9-BF820EB45BE5

For 2026
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2026/ENU/?guid=GUID-E7E054E1-0E32-4B3C-88F9-BF820EB45BE5

For 2027
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2027/ENU/?guid=GUID-E7E054E1-0E32-4B3C-88F9-BF820EB45BE5

8. symlink libtiff 
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.6 /usr/autodesk/maya2026/lib/libtiff.so.5

9. make webkit2gtk3 dummy rpm 
#!/bin/bash
set -e
cat > webkit2gtk3.spec <<'SPEC'
Name:           webkit2gtk3
Version:        1
Release:        0
Summary:        Dummy Provides: webkit2gtk3 for Autodesk Licensing
License:        Public-Domain
Provides:       webkit2gtk3
%description
Empty placeholder so rpm -q webkit2gtk3 returns success.
%files
SPEC
rpmbuild -bb --define "_rpmdir $(pwd)" webkit2gtk3.spec
sudo rpm -i --nodeps --force x86_64/webkit2gtk3-1-0.x86_64.rpm
echo "Dummy RPM installed."

10. Launch Maya

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Notes for future tutorials and potential fixes for things

I just found out there is a fedora copr containing webkit2gtk3. People trying to get Citrix Workspace working on Fedora 43 were using it and it worked for some of them. Going to try this very soon.