XSI 7.0 / 7.5 on Fedora Core 9/10 - 64bit ONLY

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THIS GUIDE IS FOR Fedora Core 9/10 64BIT   This assume's that you have a fully functional system first we need to make sure we have the right shell to work with. For this we need a C-Shell Code: su - type in your password yum -y install tcsh Install SPM Here we need to install some 32bit librarys in order to have SPM working properly. This is done by Code: yum -y install libXt.i386 compat-libstdc++-33.i386 Now install the spm and switch to C-Shell Code: tcsh /path/to/the/spm/setup If an error comes up during the install (that it can't find the 'setup') just ignore it. I have no idea of what this error is, but the installer still works. Start lictools and generate a request to send to Autodesk/Softimage Code: /usr/Softimage/Spm/bin/lictools Now with Autodesk you need to contact support as ADLM will be the 'default' licensing and spm doesn't have any web connections. Install XSI (still as superuser and in tcsh) Code: /path/to/the/setup Do as you normaly do with assigning the SPM HOST. We now need to fix the libX11 problem that XSI has with newer distros. So for this you download a file that we will put in the XSI bin directory. (still as super user and in tsch) XSI 7.01 Code: cd /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/Application/bin wget http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/libX11.so.6.tar.gz tar xvf libX11.so.6.tar.gz XSI 7.5 Code: cd /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/Application/bin wget http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/libX11.so.6.tar.gz tar xvf libX11.so.6.tar.gz Start XSI to see how it worked XSI 7.01 Code: /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/Application/bin/xsi XSI 7.5 Code: /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/Application/bin/xsi Python Now you need to download the python librarys (as superuser) Code: cd /root wget http://www.softimage.com/downloads/xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-install.tar Unpack and copy the file to XSI's bin directory XSI 7.01 Code: tar xvf xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-install.tar cp xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-bin.tgz /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/Application/bin cd /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/Application/bin tar xvf xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-bin.tgz XSI 7.5 Code: tar xvf xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-install.tar cp xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-bin.tgz /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/Application/bin cd /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/Application/bin tar xvf xsi-python-2.5.2-linux64-bin.tgz Now we need to register python for your user. Start a new shell (keep the old one if we need to make some more changes as a super user) XSI 7.01 Code: tcsh source /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/.xsi_7.01 cd ${XSI_BINDIR} mwpython win32com/axscript/client/pyscript.py XSI 7.5 Code: tcsh source /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/.xsi_7.5 cd ${XSI_BINDIR} mwpython win32com/axscript/client/pyscript.py if everything worked well it should have told you that python was registered. Python Addition If you are (as I am at work) switching computers but using roaming profiles (which in linux world is that you have your desktop where ever you login). You loose your Python registration for that login. Don't know why they made it this way, but Python for XSI Linux64 needs to be 1.) Registered per user 2.) Registered per machine. So.. create a empty file on your desktop called "xsi7". Open it up with gedit or any other text editor and paste the text below XSI 7.01 Code: #!/bin/tcsh cd /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01 source .xsi_7.01 cd ${XSI_BINDIR} mwpython win32com/axscript/client/pyscript.py xsi XSI 7.5 Code: #!/bin/tcsh cd /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5 source .xsi_7.5 cd ${XSI_BINDIR} mwpython win32com/axscript/client/pyscript.py xsi To make it a e.xecutable, in a terminal type: Code: chmod +x $HOME/Desktop/xsi7 su - your password cp $HOME/Desktop/xsi7 /usr/local/bin Quicktime installation Thanks to nRatio (Mikko) for the binarys To enable capture with quicktimes. XSI 7.01 Code: su - your password cd /usr/Softimage/XSI_7.01/Application/bin wget http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/OpenquicktimeXSI_64.tar.gz tar xvf OpenquicktimeXSI_64.tar.gz XSI 7.5 Code: su - your password cd /usr/Softimage/Softimage_7.5/Application/bin wget http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/OpenquicktimeXSI_64.tar.gz tar xvf OpenquicktimeXSI_64.tar.gz You can now type "xsi7" in a terminal and it will register and start XSI. You can use this all the time as it doesn't "hurt" the registration of Python.   Credit : Stefan Andersson