Getting Started with Maxon App on Linux

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
-----------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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