@lewis2e below is bout houdini 18.
I figured out a verry simple hack which i then forgot and remembered before deciding to find a better solution fix it properly and update the arch package.
/etc/init.d
seems the location houdni wants to not ask where to install Then I just launched sesinetd with restart option and houdini with a script.
I will try and fix the sesinetd.install script. And update the package if I'm allowed to.
Your advice will still be 70% of my predicted work amount. I thank you a very large amount.
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AWhetter commented on 2017-11-16 06:00
I've updated this for Houdini 16 but because PySide2 currently doesn't install, I have a hacky setup where I've downloaded and unpacked python2-pyqt5, pyqt5-common, and python2-sip from here (https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2016/06/15/extra/os/x86_64/). I've then edited /opt/houdini/houdini/python2.7libs/hutil/Qt.py line 318 from "if preferred:" to "if False:" to get houdini to try using PyQt5 instead of just PySide2. Finally I run houdini with `PYTHONPATH=</path/to/unpacked/pyqt/stuff>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ /opt/houdini/bin/houdini`.