I downloaded Blender directly from the site because apt-get installs an older version and I like to have the most recent. However, I would like to be able to launch blender from the terminal. I also want all .blend files to display the Blender logo. I was able to associate .blend files to open in blender when clicked, I just want them all to display the Blender logo or something similar.
I would appreciate any help with these issues.
(p.s. I’m sorry if this is the wrong forum, I wasn’t sure exactly where to put this question)
Go to www.getdeb.net and download and install Blender 2.48 from there.
Or you can add the one you have to the Applications menu:-
System => Preferences => Main Menu
Select Graphics
Click on New Item
Type - Application in terminal
Name - Blender
Command - Browse to your blender exectutable
Comment - You name it…
Click on the icon and navigate to the Blender icon.
OK
Close
I’m not sure whether this will run by just typing blender, or ./blender but you can try it. I have about five different versions at the moment and I don’t want to uninstall them all to test it.
If not you can add an alias to ~/.bash.rc
Add
alias blender=“./PATH_TO_BLENDER_EXECUTABLE”
to /home/user/.bash.rc
then when you want to launch blender type blender in a terminal window
