Install and configure software required for jobs

After you set up the Deadline Cloud worker agent, you can prepare the worker host with any software that is required to run jobs.

When you submit a job to a queue with an associated jobRunAsUser, the job runs as that user. When a job is submitted with commands that are not an absolute path, that command must be found in the PATH of that user.

On Linux, you might specify the PATH for a user in one of the following:

• their ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile

• system configuration files such as /etc/profile.d/* and /etc/profile

• shell startup scripts: /etc/bashrc.

On Windows, you might specify the PATH for a user in one of the following:

• their user-specific environment variables

• the system-wide environment variables

Install digital content creation tool adaptors

Deadline Cloud provides OpenJobDescription adaptors for using popular digital content creation (DCC) applications. To use these adaptors in a customer-managed fleet, you must install the DCC software and the application adaptors. Then, ensure the software's executable programs are available on the system search path (for example, in the PATH environment variable).

To install DCC adaptors on a customer-managed fleet

1. Open the a terminal.

   1. On Linux, open a terminal as the root user (or use sudo / su)

   2. On Windows, open an administrator command prompt or PowerShell terminal.

2. Install the Deadline Cloud adaptor packages.

   pip install deadline deadline-cloud-for-maya deadline-cloud-for-nuke deadline-cloud-for-blender