evanschaible

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=14&Itemid=166 [sidefx.com]

emeek77
Are you telling me a user found a fix and sidefx couldn't? What a joke. If every other 3d app i own works and houdini dont. ITS NOT APPLES FAULT. And if it is, FIX IT!! Dont wait on them. It has to be the way houdini is written. And if they cant fix a problem having to do with permissions they cant fix anything. All I did was change permissions AND THEY CANT FIX IT? THEY BLAME APPLE FOR A PERMISSION PROBLEM? Funny, Modo, Cinema 4d or Maya didnt have that problem on SL. But I guess its apples fault. We have bee strugling with this for ever and you guys wouldnt help. Finally someone came to the rescue but it wasnt sidefx and its PATHETIC. Whayt if i had paid 8 grand for this…

Oh dear…

Thats what you get for ripping off so many tutorials, and claiming them as your own…

:roll:

freejonah
Did I make a mistake?

I got very excited about the latest Ubuntu release 9.10 and installed it on my Macbook Pro ( dual boot. ). I downloaded and installed houdini apprentice for Ubuntu 9.04. Am I correct in realizing that this won't work? The intall went ok, and I can source the proper setup file. I just can't launch the binary executable.

whoops,
jonah

p.s. how long until we get an install for Ubuntu 9.10?

I run Houdini on Red Hat Fedora 12 and everything works perfectly. I think you may find you need to create certain environment variables (the purpose of ‘source houdini_setup’) and than create a shell script that does this automatically for you.

Im not too familiar with Ubuntu but Im pretty sure the process is the same, if not similar.
Create a new shell script and use this code:

#!/bin/bash
cd <insert your install file path here>
source houdini_setup_bash
houdini

What this does is auto sources your file and than launches the program. From the way I understood your post this is the answer to your problem, I think…

- Evan