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

blenderppa

My problem is that i want to install latest blender and upgrade it automatically via sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade . So, i tried to add a repository 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

So, after the first line executed in terminal it gives me:

You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
 tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~cheleb/+archive/blender-svn
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

 Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options
 --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.pvnVePB2Fl --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
 gpg: "tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted" not a key ID: skipping

And when i am running the second line it gives me:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheleb/blender-svn/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheleb/blender-svn/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages
404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch
 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheleb/blender-svn/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages
 404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

Q: why this ppa does not work and what should i do to have blender updated automatically!?!Thanks

Best Answer

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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