Ubuntu – How to install and keep updated with the most recent versions of Blender on Ubuntu?

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Blender is a perfect piece of software with many brilliant changes in each minor release. But often the most recent versions of Ubuntu does not have the latest versions of Blender.

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I suggest you add this blender ppa as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender

Followed by sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install blender

From now on, any updates to the ppa should be offered automatically.

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Ubuntu – Where does Blender install on Ubuntu

Blender scripts will go to /usr/lib/blender/scripts/addons/

P.S.-which is the command for finding the path of the executables. e.g. which blender. However, if you have Synaptic package manager, it's easy to find all installed files by going to package-properties > Installed Files. And also Ubuntu package search ;)

Ubuntu – How to install the latest Blender 3D builds from a PPA

IF you Actually click on the links you can find out why, the address just doesn't exist.

And if you go to the launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~cheleb/+archive/blender-svn you can see it's not accessible.

@PhoneixS asked the maintainer of the PPA Ralf Hölzemer (cheleb) and he said: "...cannot maintain that PPA any longer."

You can however Install it from this other PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~thomas-schiex/+archive/ubuntu/blender

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

The builds are recent so you still get the newest Blender.

Here you can find Instructions on how to Compile Blender from SVN

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/CMake

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