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.
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