Hello everyone!
I just tried to install the Houdini Apprentice 16 in an effort to get acquainted (after a very long time) to the program. My system runs on Linux Mint 8.1 (Ubuntu 16.04 based), KDE Plasma windows manager.

As I go through the installation process, the terminal stops at the following part:

Commencing installation of selected modules.
This may take a few minutes…

Installing: Houdini in /opt/hfs16.0.600…….

Installing: Houdini menus…
Installing apprentice license…
The Houdini 16.0.600 environment has been initialized.

And as I understand, it is the moment when it wants to start the License Administration (I already selected the local licensing during the installation process), but nothing happens.

Is there any additional dependency required?

When I tried to run the Apprentice or the License Administrator from the icons that are in my applications menu, nothing happened and I received no error message whatsoever.

I also tried the terminal command:

/opt/hfs16.0.600/bin/happrentice %F

No error there either, but nothing would start.

The License Administrator simply got no response:

/opt/hfs16.0.600/bin/hkey %F

Any recommendations?

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

The output from the installation process looks pretty normal. And usually if you have a missing dependency/requirement then Houdini and hkey will be pretty noisy about it.

Can you try running these commands from a terminal and let me know what happens?

That should launch Houdini and keep it in the foreground so that you should see some sort of error in the terminal if it craps out.

Cheers,
Rob

Hello Rob,

And thank you so much for your response!

I checked out your recommendation and as it showed, the terminal just paused right there, after the “houdini -foreground” command, without printing out any other message.

It is interesting, since I tried the installation on two different KDE Plasma desktops and on the other (being the current laptop), it worked perfectly. As it did on a Cinnamon/XFCE manager (on different systems).

For all intends and purposes, I deactivated all desktop effects, but I still get the same reaction. What it seems to go awry is the ability to pop up the GUI required for accepting.

I will give it a few more shots with tweaks here and there and see if anything works out.

Thank you again!

Weird. Definitely sounds like an issue with the desktop manager. I have a laptop running Linux Mint 17.3 + Cinnamon and Houdini runs fine on that system. I'll see if I can install KDE Plasma and give that a try.

Out of curiosity, what's your desktop setup like? i.e. how many monitors? what are their resolutions?

Cheers,
Rob

Thank you for your response Rob!
Actually, it had something to do with my Mint KDE desktop. I've re-arranged a lot since and got the system to run under CentOS (with an upgraded Kernel, since the 3.10 is excruciatingly slow) and a new RX480 8GB. In there, it appears everything works smoothly. Minus a bug CentOS pops every now and then (with the ethernet), which I'll fix up.

I have to say that I am impressed with the new tool-sets you guys put up, which makes me feel a lot more comfortable and at home with the applications I was using in my previous studio.

So I see me jumping back into the Indie version very soon, in order to test how it can perform (and I can perform) under -initially- a small production capacity.

Thank you so much again!