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How to install Blender – 2.79 on Ubuntu – 18.04

To install Blender &ndash 2.79 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04

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. It is so simple to Blender 2.79 on Ubuntu 18.04.

Installing Blender

Let' s first add the repository to install Blender application. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
 A revival of Irie Shinsuke' s PPA: Blender is compiled with all bells and whistles (OSL, OpenCollada, OpenVDB, OSD, jemalloc &  CUDA 9.1 precompiled kernels) and adapted to Ubuntu (python, ffmpeg, ilmbase, openEXR, eigen3, glew, lzo,... Ubuntu packages are used directly to avoid redundancy).
If you find this PPA useful, you can offer me a coffee or a beer at
  http://goo.gl/jz21zY
Yes, in 3.5 years, 35 persons/companies did it: US$(5+10+5+5+5+5+10+5+10+3+5+4+10+5+10+10+10+4.5+4.43+4.53+5+2+10)+&euro (50.79+3.64+13.37+10+5+4.48+2.50+5.00+20.00+15.00+15+5). I enjoyed the drinks! (updated March 30, 2018).
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Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease       
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.9 kB]
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease                 
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [5,392]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [5,412 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [3,480 ]
Fetched 30.2 kB in 3s (10.1 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

After adding the repository we need to update the system repository.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease               
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease       
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now we can able to install Blender application using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install blender -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up libavdevice57:amd64 (7:3.4.2-2) ...
Setting up odbcinst1debian2:amd64 (2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up odbcinst (2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libgdal20 (2.2.3+dfsg-2) ...
Setting up libopencv-imgcodecs3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4build2) ...
Setting up libopencv-videoio3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4build2) ...
Setting up libopenimageio1.7 (1.7.17~dfsg0-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up blender (2.79.b+dfsg0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ...

Then open the Ubuntu menu and type Blender on the menu to open the application.

Now we get to open a Blender application.

During the application launch, you can note the version of blender installed.

With this, the method to install Blender 2.79 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Blender Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
How to create .blend license files in manually?
A
Yes. The output of Blender, in the form of .blend files, is considered program output, and the sole copyright of the user.
Q
Why is Blender free?
A
Blender was originally developed as in-house 3D software by the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo. As a spin-off of NeoGeo, co-founder Ton Roosendaal founded a new company called Not a Number to market and develop Blender, while making Blender available to anyone via the internet. Sadly, NaN’s ambitions and opportunities didn’t match the company’s capabilities and the market realities of the time, and after a turbulent corporate history, Not a Number was shut down in early 2002.
Q
How do I do [some specific Blender function]?
A
There are many community-driven discussion boards where you can ask questions or give answers related to using Blender, such as "https://blender.stackexchange.com/" See the "https://www.blender.org/support/" for more information.
Q
What about Add-ons or my Python scripts in "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
How to use Blender commercially?
A
. Any creation you make as an artist with Blender is your sole property and can be applied for any purpose you choose to. This also applies the Add-ons and Python scripts you write for Blender.

If you like to distribute Blender itself, you have to be aware of the GPL rules, which basically means you have to make sources for Blender available as well. However, in general, it’s sufficient to provide information that forwards to blender.org.