Hi!
I'm having trouble installing Houdini on my Fedora Kinoite setup.
On these systems the typical recommendation is to install using an AppImage or flatpack, but I couldn't find any for houdini so the second option is to either install into the uers's home folder or use a distrobox for installation.
I have tried both of these but didn't have any luck.
the main cause of the problem is that houdini really wants to install some components into specific folders that it shouldn't install into, according to packaging best practices.
Its seams like the license server can't be installed in any other location than the usr/lib folder
But his is a read only place in atomic distro setups.
Would it be possible to get some support on how to setup Houdini on these systems, as they are getting increasingly popular, especially given how much extra stability they can provide.
Installing on atomic desktops
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So far the closes I manged to get was when installing inside the distrobox container.
I this setup I can start houdini and the GUI shows up, but when I start using it (open the add node dropdown) it crashes with the following crash log:
I this setup I can start houdini and the GUI shows up, but when I start using it (open the add node dropdown) it crashes with the following crash log:
Crash report from bb67b288; Houdini FX Version 20.5.487 [linux-x86_64-gcc11.2]
Uptime 33 seconds
Fri Feb 21 18:38:23 2025
Caught signal 11
Traceback from 86120 ThreadId=0x7f9ac0a11300
AP_Interface::coreDumpChaser(UTsignalHandlerArg) <libHoudiniUI.so>
AP_Interface::si_CrashHandler::chaser(UTsignalHandlerArg) <libHoudiniUI.so>
signalCallback(UTsignalHandlerArg) <libHoudiniUT.so>
UT_Signal::UT_ComboSignalHandler::operator()(int, siginfo_t*, void*) const <libHoudiniUT.so>
UT_Signal::processSignal(int, siginfo_t*, void*) <libHoudiniUT.so>
__GI___sigaction <libc.so.6>
glXCreateGLXPixmap <libGLX_nvidia.so.0>
_nv006glcore <libnvidia-glcore.so.565.77>
vk_icdNegotiateLoaderICDInterfaceVersion <libGLX_nvidia.so.0>
[0x7248e] <libGLX_nvidia.so.0>
qt_plugin_instance <libqxcb-glx-integration.so>
RE_Server::GLSwapBuffers(RE_Window*) <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Window::swapBuffers() <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Window::clearWindow(UT_Color const&) <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Window::doRedrawSubclass() <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Window::doRedraw() <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Queue::doWindowRedraws() <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Queue::drain() <libHoudiniUI.so>
UI_Queue::eventLoop() <libHoudiniUI.so>
main <libHoudiniUI.so>
__libc_start_call_main <libc.so.6>
__libc_start_main_alias_2 <libc.so.6>
[0x40365c] <houdini-bin>
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