Table Of Content
Installation
Downloading the application
Go to https://www.maxon.net/en/try and download the Linux version of Maxon App
Installing the application
Open a terminal window, and
cd to your the directory where you downloaded the package. Then run
sudo sh install_maxon_app_2.0.sh --target /opt/maxon
The application will be installed like so:
Creating directory /opt/maxon
Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing 0.0.1 100%
Executing postinstallation script
create user for maxon app service if non-existent
service user found
setup directories
setting file & directory permissions
install and start the maxon app as a service
Verifying that the service has started
systemctl status maxon_app.service
If the service is running you'll see something like this:
● maxon_app.service - Maxon App Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/maxon_app.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-09-01 15:05:20 CEST; 11min ago
Main PID: 992 (start_srv.sh)
Tasks: 16 (limit: 48088)
Memory: 15.9M
CGroup: /system.slice/maxon_app.service
├─992 /bin/bash /opt/maxon/maxon_app/bin/start_srv.sh
└─993 /opt/maxon/maxon_app/bin/maxon_appd
Licensing Workfows
Licenses are managed with the
mx1 tool. In a default install the tool can be found in /opt/maxon/maxon_app/bin
Verifying that the service is available
mx1 service info
If the service is running you should see something like the following
Maxon Service
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Version: 2.0.0
API: 2.0
Buildstamp: 0x05e4c547
Schema: 1.3.0
Class: production
If the service is not running then you'll see this instead:
Error: Request failed. Service might be unavailable.
In this case ensure that the service has started by running
systemctl start maxon_app.service
Logging in and out of your account
To log in you'll need the email address and password used to access your Maxon account
mx1 user login -u [email protected]
Enter password: your_password
To logout run
mx1 user logout
Listing your licenses
To see your licenses, run:
mx1 license list
A list will generated that contains all account licenses, their activation status and validity period.
License Name Description Activated Expired Validity Period
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net.maxon.license.app.redshift~commercial Redshift yes no 2021-08-10 - 2022-01-01
net.maxon.license.service.cineversity Cineversity yes no 2021-08-10 - 2022-01-01
net.maxon.license.app.bundle_maxonone~trial Maxon One Trial yes no 2021-08-20 - 2021-09-02
net.maxon.license.app.bundle_c4d_rs-release~commercial Cinema 4D (Redshift Bundle) no no 2021-08-10 - 2022-01-01
net.maxon.license.app.teamrender-release~commercial TeamRender Commercial no no 2021-08-10 - 2022-01-01
net.maxon.license.app.cinema4d-release~commandline C4D Commandline no no 2020-04-03 - 2099-12-31
Activating and Deactivating specific licenses
To active a license run
mx1 license activate <license_identifier> For example:
mx1 license activate net.maxon.license.app.bundle_maxonone~trial
Successfully activated a license for 'net.maxon.license.app.bundle_maxonone~trial
Similarly to deactivate a license use the
deactivate command. For example:
mx1 license deactivate net.maxon.license.app.bundle_maxonone~trial
Successfully deactivated 'net.maxon.license.app.bundle_maxonone~trial'
Starting a trial
Trial licenses are started with a special command
mx1 license trial start
Listing your products
Your available products can be listed with the
mx1 product list command. For example
Product Version Installed Owned Licensing Identifier
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Cinema 4D 23.000 no yes deactivated net.maxon.cinema4d
Magic Bullet Suite 14.0.0 no no trial com.redgiant.magicbullet
Redshift 3.0.0 no no trial com.redshift3d.redshift