Hello, I recently started working on learning linux in a new system, using Ubuntu 14.04. I installed Houdini and no icons are present for any of the buttons. Looks like something related to permissions and/or my license.

Some responses I've seen point to the hsvg library and replacing files or deleting them so Houdini can build new ones. Any help would be much appreciated!

If I launch Houdini via terminal it says:

– /home/username/houdini13.0/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not writeable –

and Houdini spits out this error, which is also repeated in the terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 2, in <module>
File “/opt/hfs13.0.582/houdini/python2.7libs/sas/localassets.py”, line 1669, in ensure_webresponder_server_is_running
_web_responder_api = webresponder.start_server(WebResponderAPI)
File “/opt/hfs13.0.582/houdini/python2.7libs/sas/webresponder.py”, line 26, in start_server
logger = _create_logger()
File “/opt/hfs13.0.582/houdini/python2.7libs/sas/webresponder.py”, line 69, in _create_logger
hutil.file.ensureDirExists(sas.localassets.asset_store_dir())
File “/opt/hfs13.0.582/houdini/python2.7libs/hutil/file.py”, line 24, in ensureDirExists
os.makedirs(dir_path)
File “/opt/hfs13.0.582/python/lib/python2.7/os.py”, line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: Permission denied: ‘/home/username/houdini13.0/asset_store’

Try this:
- Close all instances of Houdini
- From a terminal do (DO NOT MISTYPE THIS): sudo rm -rf ~/houdini13.0
- Now start Houdini

That worked. Before there was just one document in that folder, something related to environment variables, now there's a bunch of stuff.

Thank you very much

Cheers!