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Step by Step Guide to Maya
Installation
Introduction
This guide provides detailed, step by step instructions on installing Autodesk
Maya 2010 on all supported platforms. If you are already familiar with installing
Maya and do not require detailed instructions, you can refer to the
Quick Start
to Maya Installation
on page 3.
The Maya installer also gives you the option of installing the MatchMover
camera tracker, the Toxik compositing system, and (for Windows and Linux
only) Autodesk Backburner network render queue manager.
The steps to install Maya are similar whether you are installing Maya on a single
computer with a stand-alone license, or on many client computers that will
access a network license from a server machine. The basic workflow to install
Maya is as follows:
1 Complete the tasks described in
Prepare to Install Maya (Step by Step) on
page 10.
2 Install Maya on your preferred platform:
Windows on page 11
Mac OS X on page 18
Linux on page 21
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