Hey guys, I am running the latest version of Ubuntu and I just went to graphic all to get the latest build. I have tried several, but none of them open when I click the blender icon. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
A) Use a build by Fish, they work for me, Ubuntu 9.04, 64 bit (he tests on multiple distros, including 10.04)
B) Make sure you have python 3.1 installed. I think that’s the earliest version supported.
C) Please use the support forums next time 
you are almost certainly missing a dependency if non of the builds are working…
to find out which:
run blender from a terminal (either cd to the directory containing blender and type
./blender
that’s dot slash blender… or just type in the full path to the blender you want to run…)
It will then tell you how it failed… probably “missing dependency blah blah blah”
to find and install that either go into synaptic package manager and search for it or in your teminal:
apt-cache search dependany name here
look at the results list and figure out what looks like the best match. then
sudo apt-get install dependancy lib name here
repeat until all dependencies are met!
michael W. I’ve been having this problem on my garage PC with ubunut8.04 but not with 9.1. Thank you for giving me a way to figure it out. We linux novices ask dumn questions in the wrong forums, but your patience and thoughtful responses are what encourage me to give back to blender community with time and effort for the good of the cause… that was a long winded thank you.
I will give that a try and and dido to NRK’s reply.
thanks
worked like a champ for me… thanks!