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How to install Blender on ParrotOs 3.9

To install Blender on ParrotOs 3.9

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. It is really simple to install Blender on ParrotOS 3.9, and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Blender

Before you kick-start your installation process, make sure you add the required repository in the following location. You shall make use of the following command for the same purpose. 

┌──[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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

And then, you need to update your system by running the following command. 

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable InRelease                         
Hit:2 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt xenial-pgdg InRelease            
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]       
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [156 kB]     
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [63.0 kB] 
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [87.7 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [232 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages [186 kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [97.3 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [123 kB]
Fetched 1,038 kB in 11s (91.2 kB/s)                                            
Reading package lists... Done

Once the above two steps are completed, you shall proceed with the installation of Blender. So execute the following command for the same purpose. 

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get install blender
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  blender-data gdal-data libaec0 libarmadillo8 libarpack2 libavcodec57
  libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55
  libblosc1 libboost-locale1.62.0 libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libcdio16
  libcharls1 libdap25 libdapclient6v5 libdapserver7v5 libepsilon1 libfreexl1
  libfyba0 libgdal20 libgdcm2.8 libgeos-3.5.1 libgeos-c1v5 libgeotiff2
  libhdf4-0-alt libhdf5-100 libkmlbase1 libkmlconvenience1 libkmldom1
  libkmlengine1 libkmlregionator1 libkmlxsd1 liblog4cplus-1.1-9
  libmariadbclient18 libminizip1 libmysofa0 libnetcdf13 libogdi3.2
  libopencolorio1v5 libopencv-core3.2 libopencv-highgui3.2
  libopencv-imgcodecs3.2 libopencv-imgproc3.2 libopencv-videoio3.2
  libopenimageio1.8 libopenvdb4.0 libpostproc54 libproj12 libqhull7 libraw16
  libsdl2-2.0-0 libsocket++1 libspatialite7 libspnav0 libsuperlu5
  libswresample2 libswscale4 libsz2 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 liburiparser1 libva-drm2
  libva-x11-2 libva2 libwebpmux3 libxerces-c3.2 libyaml-cpp0.3v5 odbcinst
  odbcinst1debian2 proj-bin proj-data
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Setting up libopencv-imgcodecs3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up libopencv-videoio3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up libopencv-highgui3.2:amd64 (3.2.0+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up libopenimageio1.8:amd64 (1.8.6~dfsg0-4) ...
Setting up blender (2.79+dfsg0-3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Configuring sandbox profiles....
Sandbox profiles updated!

Launch your application through the Applications ----> Graphics ----> Blender.

Your Blender application is now getting loaded.

Once the application is open, you shall start creating your designs.

With this, the installation of Blender on ParrotOs 3.9 comes to an end.

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