Blender on Linux = HowTo?

I installed Kubuntu 6.10 in a partition of my computer, after that I instaled some DEB packagies, and now I want to install Blender! But is so difficult!

I downloaded the file:

http://www.blenderbuilds.com/bbuilds_download/lin_cduo_20061106_sse3.tar.gz

but I dont know how to install this! :confused:

Previously I installed Koffice 1.6.1 but was a pain downloading a lot of dependencies and installing all the packagies and dependencies in the right order.

Anyway, if have someone Kubuntu 6.10 and has reached to make Blender running on it, please share how do you achieved this. How to install Blender on Kubuntu?

try typing in a terminal ā€œsudo apt-get install blenderā€, and then type your password.

Or you can try with ā€œSynaptic Package Managerā€ and do it with a GUI.

Luck

vico

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Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
E: Couldnā€™t find package blender :frowning:

And how to specify where is located the package? Or I need to copy the package in a specify folder?

Also I have ā€œAdeptā€ but I dont know how to add the package to this package manager.

Look in System => Administration => Software Sources and activate at least the ā€œUniverseā€ option. I recommend you activate all.

Then again try ā€œsudo apt-get updateā€ and ā€œsudo apt-get install blenderā€

You can use a graphic program in System => Administration => Synaptic Package Manager.

if you canā€™t find it do ā€œsudo apt-get install synapticā€

and look again.

hope it helps

vico

I think he wants to install cvs-build.

You donā€™t have install that tar-file, just extract it somewhere. Then go thath folder and double-click file called blender. (or if you prefer command line, then cd to that dir and type ./blender

Hope that helps!

Or: if you really want to dive to the latest possible blender, you can start using cvs and build it yourself. That requires little bit work in first time but then you can have the latest blender with one command any time you want. Here is howto: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/UbuntuBlenderCompile

Ubuntuist, pardon meā€¦but does the procedure applies to mandriva tooā€¦ any specific procedure?(just learning linux)

If you guys want to test prebuild BlenderCVS versions, make yourself a directory where to stall these builds. For example on ypur Desktop. Open up terminal/konsole or whatever you use.
Type: ā€œcd Desktopā€ then ā€œmkdir Blenderbuildsā€ to get a new directory to store your testbuilds.
move or download that blenderXYZ.tar.gz to this directory ā€œmv blenderXYZ Desktop/Blenderbuildsā€ and go there ā€œcd Desktop/Blenderbuildsā€. Now you must unpack it with ā€œtar zxf blenderXYZ.tar.gzā€ go to the new folder ā€œcd blenderā€ and start blender with ā€œ./blenderā€

have fun

krizu

Yes, I think so. tar.gz is just a compressed bunch of files. After decompression just launch binary.

Or do you mean the cvs part? That differs because mandriva uses different package manager but the names of the packages are pretty much same. (version numbers might differ). After the depencies are installed, the procedure is same.

Ok guysā€¦thanks lotā€¦

The fastest way to install blender. I do this on the Linux Fedora platform
get a command prompt
su root
yum install blender

To install the Repository version of Blender you must activate the extra repository sections.

Go To: View > Manage Repository

You will see alot of shaded in text and some non-shaded. The non-shaded is the repositories that Adept is allowed to use.
So to get the other repositories. Look for the Text that begin with ā€œdebā€ or ā€œdeb-srcā€ select, then Right Click > Enable, once you have done that to all the shaded in text that begin with ā€œdebā€ & ā€œdeb-srcā€ go to the bottom of the window & press ā€œApplyā€. Once done go to the top and click on ā€œFetch-Updatesā€.
You can now Download Blender and many other programs. By doing the usually typing in the Search Bar at the top of Adept.

Hope this helps you. :slight_smile:

If you create a file like the following:

Cut and paste into new file /etc/cron.daily/bf-blender.sh
#!/bin/bash

cd /home/yourusername/
wget http://templar.zapto.org/blender-nightly/?path=&download=blender-2.42a-linux-glibc2.3.6-i386-static.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf blender-2.42a-linux-glibc2.3.6-i386-static.tar.bz2
____End Cut-

Then run:

sudo chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/bf-blender.sh

Your computer will automaticly download the latest nightly build from my website and unzip it. Throw a shortcut on the desktop and you will always have the latest version of blender as of last night.

Note: I typed this from memory, it should work, but there may be a typo.

Theanks for your advices.

I finally installed Blender using ā€œAdept managerā€ after adding a universal repository, but now, Blender wont start. :frowning:

Im getting the following error message:

":~$ blender
guessing ā€˜blender-binā€™ == ā€˜/usr/bin/blender-binā€™
Compiled with Python version 2.4.
Checking for installed Pythonā€¦ got it!
Xlib: extension ā€œGLXā€ missing on display ā€œ:0.0ā€.
ERROR: Unable to open Blender window "

I need to install some nvidia drivers or something?

Itā€™s an issue with your card. Something to do with GLX support. Make sure glx is installed. You may also need a

Load ā€œglxā€

line in your xorg.conf file, right below the line that reads:

Load ā€œdriā€

or at least in that same section.

You need to install nvidia drivers
this link should help:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Graphics_Driver_.28NVIDIA.29

vico

Well, he shouldnĀ“t install nvidia drivers with another brandĀ“s card?! Anyway the guys are right you donĀ“t have hardware acceleration for your card. either you did not install the correct drivers yet or you didnĀ“t configure correctly. The content of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be helpful as well.

.krizu

Theanks to all for yours advices. I managed to install Blender 2.42a from an ā€œUniversal Repositoryā€ and also the nVidia drivers using ā€œAutomatix2ā€ and now I can run Blender (2.42a).

But, I have one question more:

How to manage to make working the following:

http://www.blenderbuilds.com/bbuilds_download/lin_cduo_20061106_sse3.tar.gz

Im extracting using ā€œArkā€ but it seems like cant extract the entire archive. The directory ā€œ.blenderā€ containing the ā€œlocaleā€ and ā€œscriptā€ subdirectories cant be extracted.

I can have 2 different Blender versions instalated in 2 different locations?

I tryed your metod but Im getting this:

":~$ wget http://templar.zapto.org/blender-nightly/?path=&download=blender-2.42a-linux-glibc2.3.6-i386-static.tar.bz2
[1] 5742
:~$ --22:24:15-- http://templar.zapto.org/blender-nightly/?path=
=> `index.html?path=ā€™
Resolving templar.zapto.orgā€¦ 64.211.118.32
Connecting to templar.zapto.org|64.211.118.32|:80ā€¦ connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting responseā€¦ 200 OK
Length: 6,447 (6.3K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 6,447 25.08K/s

22:24:16 (25.03 KB/s) - `index.html?path=ā€™ saved [6447/6447]
:~$ tar -xjvf blender-2.42a-linux-glibc2.3.6-i386-static.tar.bz2
tar: blender-2.42a-linux-glibc2.3.6-i386-static.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[1]+ Done wget http://templar.zapto.org/blender-nightly/?path=
:~$
"

Go to thist link:
http://templar.zapto.org/blender-nightly/?path=
and download the nightly build.

Then open a terminal change to the directory where you downloaded the file and type:
ā€œtar -jxvf blender-2.42a-linux-glibcā€¦ā€ (the name of the file you downloaded).

That command should uncompress blender in a directory, look inside and find a file named ā€œblenderā€, you have to execute that file.

You can execute with a double click in konqueror, or in the terminal in the same directory where the file is, write ā€œ./blenderā€.

vico