Houdini Silent Install Script

What is it

Automatically (silent) downloads and installs latest Houdini build. Good solution for studio pipeline!

What does it do

• Logs in SideFx site using USERNAME and PASSWORD
• Looking for the latest Houdini production build at http://www.sidefx.com/download/daily-builds/
• Downloads the latest build if it is not yet downloaded or file is corrupted
• Extracts archive (Linux)
• Starts silent installation of Houdini only

How to

Start script with python in command line. Set USERNAME and PASSWORD of SideFx Site Account.

(linux)

python ./houdini_install.py -u myusername -p mypassword -i /opt/houdini

(windows start as admin!)

python c:\scripts\houdini_install.py -u myusername -p mypassword -i c:\software\houdini

Script will install houdini to folder installation_dir/build/

If last Houdini build is 16.5.123 HFS will be /opt/houdini/16.5.123 or c:\software\houdini\16.5.123

Flags

• -i --install_dir - Installation dir. Required.
• -u --username - SideFX site username
• -p --password - SideFX site password
• -s --server - Install Houdini License Server. y/yes, n/no, a/auto. Default auto (experimental)

Requires

• Windows or Linux
• python 2.7
• Python Modules requests and BeautifulSoup

To install modules call command

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests

Tested on

• Windows 10 x64
• Ubuntu 16.04