in past hour-two i downloaded houdini on my 32bit machine with suse9.3 installed on and nvidia(6600) 1-8xxx drivers installed…

i followed installation instructions and done ./houdini.install into /usr/houdini (i prefere to have custom installed programs into /usr )

then i went to /usr/houdini as root and tried to do next step of installation - the one : “source houdini_setup”
and it looked like this:

linuxusr/houdini # source houdini_setup
bash: houdini_setup: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `set'
bash: houdini_setup: line 26: ` if ( ! $?cwd ) set cwd=`/bin/pwd`'
then i entered into bash (there was no need to do that but… who knows.. )

linuxusr/houdini # sh
sh-3.00# source houdini_setup
sh: houdini_setup: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `set'
sh: houdini_setup: line 26: ` if ( ! $?cwd ) set cwd=`/bin/pwd`'
sh-3.00# exit
exit
linuxusr/houdini #

so as you can see, i have this problem when i want to run “ source houdini_setup” command:

sh: houdini_setup: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `set'
sh: houdini_setup: line 26: ` if ( ! $?cwd ) set cwd=`/bin/pwd`'

i have done search on this forum for problems on suse but haven't find similiar…
since this is my first post, i would like to thank sidefx for giving us such a great program, aldo i don't now more than create a tube

you need to source “houdini_setup_bash”

The one you were using is for csh

lol how didn't i do that, must have overseen ty

now when i tried to run hkey i got “Houdini License Administrator” but no license is running and i would like to try demo (30 days or whatever type of is it )

when i went to “server information” tab it sad:
- the license server is not running
- the license server may not serve licenses
- the license server does not allow this machine to read licenses –(?)

in readme.txt it says:
If you are an Apprentice (non-commerical user), Houdini will guide
you through the process of installing a non-commercial license
when it cannot find a license.
but i haven't seen any kind of guide…

in “Houdini License Administrator” i'm disallowed to do:
File -> Install licenses…(and)
File -> Manually Enter Keys…

on status bar of HLA (houdini license admin ) it says:
server not running ||| invalid server key (?)

help… pls… p.s. this is case with houdini 7.0.689

i made it.. i got license up and now i can enter keys from http://license.sidefx.com/get_nc_license.php [license.sidefx.com] to have noncomercial v.

i had to edit /etc/hosts and put
127.0.0.1 linux linux

and to do: #: /etc/init.d
#: ./sesinetd start

and in H.L.A. to set server as linux