Installing on Linux

The installation bundle installs the entire Nuke family, including Hiero and HieroPlayer, and icons for the various components appear in your installation folder.

Note:  Some modern anti-virus software may wrongly assume that certain files in the Nuke installer are suspicious. Examples of these files include libnuke-12.0.0.so and geolib-runtime-prof.so. If you have trouble installing Nuke on your machine, try disabling your anti-virus software before installation. Don't forget to restart your anti-virus software after installation.

Installing from the Terminal

1.

Download the correct .tgz installation file from our website at www.foundry.com.

2.

Extract the installer from the .tgz archive with the following terminal command:

tar xvzf Nuke11.3v6-linux-x86-release-64.tgz

This gives you an installer file.

3.

Run the installer.

sudo ./Nuke11.3v6-linux-x86-release-64-installer

4.

Follow the on-screen instructions. By default, Nuke is installed to /usr/local/Nuke11.3v6

5.

The Nuke plug-ins page on our website opens, giving you easy access to a large selection of plug-ins to use with Nuke.

6.

If you didn’t add a license key during the installation, do that now. Proceed to Licensing on Linux.

Tip:  To install Nuke silently, you can simply unzip the installer file. This creates the properly formed Nuke directory tree in the current directory.

Note:  By installing Nuke silently, you agree to the terms of the End User Licensing Agreement. To see this agreement, please refer to Foundry's End User License Agreement or run the installer in standard, non-silent mode.

Installing Remotely from the Terminal

If you need to install Nuke on render machines using the terminal, do the following:

1.

Download the correct .tgz installation file from our website at www.foundry.com.

2.

Extract the installer from the .tgz archive with the following terminal command:

tar xvzf Nuke11.3v6-linux-x86-release-64.tgz

This gives you an installer file.

3.

Use the following terminal command to log in to your render machine as root:

ssh root@render_machine

Replace render_machine with the name of your render node.

4.

Make a directory to install Nuke to:

mkdir /usr/local/Nuke11.3v6

5.

Copy the installer file from the machine that you downloaded it on to your render machine with a command like:

scp root@download_machine:/tmp/Nuke11.3v6-linux-x86-release-64-installer root@render_machine:/usr/local/Nuke11.3v6/

Replace download_machine with the name of the machine you downloaded the installer file to, and render_machine with the name of your render node.

6.

Unzip the installer file to unpack its contents into your Nuke directory:

cd /usr/local/Nuke11.3v6

unzip Nuke11.3v6-linux-x86-release-64-installer

7.

Repeat steps 3-6 for each render machine.