How to install Blender on Debian 9.0
To install Blender on Debian 9.0
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics application used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. You can use Blender for 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, compositing and many more. It also has an integrated game engine which is a added bonus for the users. Installing Blender is pretty simple and this article will guide you through the installation of Blender on Debian 9.0
Installing Blender
Before you begin the installation, make sure you add the essential repo. In order to do that, run the nano command which opens the sources.list configuration file.
root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Once the file is open, add the lines at end of the file. Save and exit the file after adding them.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Once the repo added, update the apt sources.list file as follows.
root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [62.9 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [161 kB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [74.4 kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [86.6 kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [136 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [71.9 kB]
Fetched 748 kB in 9s (76.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now is the time to install the package by triggering the following commands.
root@linuxhelppp:~# apt-get install blender Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: blender-data libavdevice57 libblosc1 libboost-atomic1.62.0 libboost-chrono1.62.0 libboost-locale1.62.0 libboost-regex1.62.0 liblog4cplus-1.1-9 libopencolorio1v5 libopenimageio1.6 libopenvdb3.2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libspnav0 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libyaml-cpp0.3v5 libzstd1 Suggested packages: spacenavd The following NEW packages will be installed: blender blender-data libavdevice57 libblosc1 libboost-atomic1.62.0 libboost-chrono1.62.0 libboost-locale1.62.0 libboost-regex1.62.0 liblog4cplus-1.1-9 libopencolorio1v5 libopenimageio1.6 libopenvdb3.2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libspnav0 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libyaml-cpp0.3v5 libzstd1 0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. Need to get 39.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 182 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y . . Setting up blender (2.78.a+dfsg0-4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...
The installation is now complete. Once the package is installed, click on the activities search bar and type the name of the package. The application icon gets displayed on your screen, click on it to launch the program.
With this, the complete installation of Blender on Debian is complete. If you are a person who often design 3D files, then Blender is the application for you, so enjoy working with Blender.
You are free to distribute Blender
You can study how Blender works and change it
You can distribute changed versions of Blender.