Unfortunately I always get - ERROR: Rendering failure. Octane can't render the scene. Check the available GPU memory or the scene complexity.
This is on a scene with just a cube and a camera. Karma is able to render with the GPU, as is Octane Blender, so for now I am reduced to playing with octane ...

For the benefit of frustrated linux users - If you are on a current Mint, or probably debian/ubuntu even if you have freeglut-dev installed you will not have a file libglut.so.3, you may have to create a symlink to the current version (in my case libglut.so.3.12.0) in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ...

The rabbit hole goes deeper than that.

I thought it should be a quick fix too, so to test I deleted my Octane toolbar...

I manually added a freshly unzipped octane.shelf file, but nothing. I spent an hour going through the various xml files in the 20.5 directory, and comparing them with the ...

I get the same error.

Any ETA on a Linux release?

Found the problem - missing freeGLUT, the plugin works now (Linux doesn't require the second path variable), but I have had to send an email to support since my licenses aren't recognized now even though the web interface shows them active on my machine.

Linux Mint 20.1 / Nvidia Driver 460.56

only entry in houdini.env:

HOUDINI_PATH = "/home/john/houdiniall/Octane_2020.2.3.0_Houdini_Linux_studio/Octane_2020.2.3.0_Houdini_18.5.532_Linux_gcc6.3.1_vr;&"

Doesn't seem to be python 3, I installed the Python 2 version and still get the errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Add_Octane_ROP", line 1, in <module>
File "/opt/hfs18.5.532/houdini/python2.7libs/roptoolutils.py", line 10, in createRenderNode
rop = hou.node('/out').createNode(rop ...

Does this work with Python 3 Houdini builds? On 18.5.532 the shelves show up but all the shelf items throw errors.

ie:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Add_Octane_ROP", line 1, in <module>
File "/opt/hfs18.5.532/houdini/python3.7libs/roptoolutils.py", line 10, in createRenderNode
rop ...

Is there any roadmap for a linux release for Solaris?