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Houdini

Houdini is a closed source 3d animation application developed by SideFX.

It installs on Slackware the same way as on Red Hat.

Download the installer from the Houdini website. They offer a variety builds, including daily builds with the latest fixes.

For OS, choose Linux. For distribution, choose Other. The only builds available are 64bit, so you must be running Slackware64.

Licensing

Foundry uses the FountryLicenseUtility (FLU) to register the application. Run FLU and point it to your license file: 

./FoundryLicenseUtility -l $HOME/FoundryLicensing/foundry.lic

There are various places you can place the Foundry License file:

  • $HOME/FoundryLicensing/
  • /usr/local/foundry/RLM/
  • $HOME/FoundryLicensing/ ….directory not found, moving on.

Alternately, you or your organisation may use a licensing server. This can be reached after launching MODO.

Applications Menu

Presumably because many studios have their artists launch applications from a shell, the Mari installer does not provide a launcher for the application menu. If you want one, create one in a text editor of your choice and save the file to /usr/share/applications/mari.desktop: 

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mari
GenericName=Mari
Comment=Foundry Mari
Exec=/opt/mari/mari
MimeType=
Icon=/opt/mari/Media/Icons/Mari.128x128.png
Path=
TerminalOptions=
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;3DGraphics;

Alternatives

Mari is closed source. Unless you pay for a full license, it is illegal to use it for commercial purposes. Open source alternatives include a mix of Blender and painting-related plugins, Krita.