Important
Due to ongoing changes in the installers and the way we do auto-upgrades of Deadline, you must reinstall the Repository and Clients again. You DO NOT need to reinstall the MongoDB database.
If you have installed beta 6 or earlier, you MUST uninstall it first to remove the Deadline 6 bin folder from your PATH environment variable. After uninstalling, you should also manually remove the system deadline.ini file if it still exists. These are the locations of this file:
- Windows: %PROGRAMDATA%\Thinkbox\Deadline6\deadline.ini
- Linux: /var/lib/Thinkbox/Deadline6/deadline.ini
- Mac OSX: /Users/Shared/Thinkbox/Deadline6/deadline.ini
The need to uninstall the client first is necessary in this case because of changes we’ve made to allow different major versions of Deadline to run at the same time. This process should not be required again once you are running beta 7 or later.
Client Installers
Linux x86_64: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … taller.run
Mac OSX: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … er.app.zip (unzip, and run the Deadline-6-osx-installer.app file)
Windows: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … taller.exe
Repository Installers
Linux x86: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … taller.run
Linux x86_64: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … taller.run
Mac OSX: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … er.app.zip (unzip, and run the DeadlineRepository-6-osx-installer.app.zip file)
Windows: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … taller.exe
Documentation
The Deadline 6 documentation is far from complete, but it contains the basics for installing Deadline and setting up your render farm. Note that this just points to the same docs that were released with beta 6 because there haven’t been any changes made for beta 11.
CHM: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … dline6.chm
PDF: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … dline6.pdf
Script API CHM: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … ne6API.chm
Script API PDF: packages.thinkboxsoftware.com/de … ne6API.pdf (open in a web browser for hyperlinks to work)