How to install Blender 2.79 on Linux Mint 18.3
To install Blender 2.79 on Linux Mint 18.3
Blender is a Free and open source application for 3D Computer graphics software product used mainly for creating animated films, Visual effects, art,3D Printing Models, Video games and much more. The latest version of Blender is 2.79 and easy to install via PPA and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.
Installing Blender 2.79
First, make sure you install the needed repositories Via PPA.
linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
You are about to add the following PPA:
A revival of Irie Shinsuke' s PPA: Blender is compiled with all bells and whistles (OSL, OpenCollada, OpenVDB, OSD, jemalloc & CUDA 9 precompiled kernels) and adapted to Ubuntu (python, ffmpeg, ilmbase, openEXR, eigen3, glew, lzo,... Ubuntu packages are used directly to avoid redundancy).
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Two (conflicting) versions of blender are provided:
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gpg: requesting key 42A98114 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 42A98114: public key " Launchpad PPA for Thomas Schiex" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
Once it is done, you need to update your repository by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scribus/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [8,272 B]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [4,700 B]
Fetched 43.7 kB in 4s (9,378 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now, you shall proceed with the installation of Blender 2.79
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install blender
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libblosc1 libboost-locale1.58.0 libboost-regex1.58.0 libboost-thread1.58.0
libboost-wave1.58.0 libjemalloc1 liblog4cplus-1.1-9 libopencolorio1v5
libopenimageio1.7 libopenshadinglanguage1.8 libopensubdiv libopenvdb3.1
libspnav0 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libyaml-cpp0.3v5
Suggested packages:
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Setting up libopenshadinglanguage1.8 (1.8-thomas~xenial2) ...
Setting up libopensubdiv (3.1.1-0thomas~xenial1) ...
Setting up libblosc1 (1.7.0-1) ...
Setting up liblog4cplus-1.1-9 (1.1.2-3.1) ...
Setting up libopenvdb3.1 (3.1.0-2) ...
Setting up libspnav0 (0.2.3-1) ...
Setting up blender (2.79-1505206035b-0thomas~xenial2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
The application has been installed, you can open it from your Linux Mint search field.
You can see that your blender application is now open.
With this, the installation of Blender 2.79 on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.
EmJay
Apr 01 2018
This version is full of bugs and has nothing to do with the one you can download from Blender.org.
Furthermore, it is not serviced by anyone at or from Blender.org. Meaning they will not help you with bugs and other issues, they will simply inform you to download the official version from their site instead.
If you want the official, latest version, please download it directly from Blender.org.
All you have to do is decompress it and use it.
If you want to add it to you apps menu, RightClick on Menu, then LeftClick on configure, hit Menu top tab, LeftClick on "Open the menu editor"; highlight Graphics on le left panel, hit New Item on the right-hand side, give it a name, hit Browse to link the executable file "blender" from wherever you put the decompressed folder (most probably "Downloads". Then, click the icon on the left of the panel and link it to "Blender.svg" from the same folder as the executable file and it's done.
To remove it: RightClick on the Blender icon and hit Remove and delete the folder it is linked to. Download the new version and do the same thing all over again.
Q
is Blender available for Windows Platform?
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Yes of course, Blender is a cross-platform application.
Q
What about the splash-screen and icons on Blender?
A
The splash-screen and icons are GPL’d material therefore when using them the terms of the GPL must be followed.
Q
What is Blender?
A
Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender' s features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing.
Q
What about Add-ons or my Python scripts to Blender?
A
If you share or publish Python scripts – if they use the Blender API calls – have to be made available compliant to the GNU GPL as well.
Q
Can I give Blender to my co-workers or employees?
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Of course! You may give any of the versions of Blender on Blender.org to other people, or share it internally via a server.