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!
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?
You donāt 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
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: ācd Desktopā then āmkdir Blenderbuildsā to get a new directory to store your testbuilds.
move or download that blenderXYZ.tar.gz to this directory āmv blenderXYZ Desktop/Blenderbuildsā and go there ācd Desktop/Blenderbuildsā. Now you must unpack it with ātar zxf blenderXYZ.tar.gzā go to the new folder ācd blenderā and start blender with ā./blenderā
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.
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 ādebā or ādeb-srcā select, then Right Click > Enable, once you have done that to all the shaded in text that begin with ādebā & ādeb-srcā go to the bottom of the window & press āApplyā. Once done go to the top and click on āFetch-Updatesā.
You can now Download Blender and many other programs. By doing the usually typing in the Search Bar at the top of Adept.
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.
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.
Theanks to all for yours advices. I managed to install Blender 2.42a from an āUniversal Repositoryā and also the nVidia drivers using āAutomatix2ā and now I can run Blender (2.42a).
Im extracting using āArkā but it seems like cant extract the entire archive. The directory ā.blenderā containing the ālocaleā and āscriptā subdirectories cant be extracted.
I can have 2 different Blender versions instalated in 2 different locations?
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=
:~$
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Then open a terminal change to the directory where you downloaded the file and type:
ātar -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 āblenderā, 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./blenderā.