BlenderUpdaterCLI

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Hey there!
I wrote a script to update Blender to the lastest nightly build without user interaction, it all works from the command line. So you can even write a .bat file to have double-click power to update Blender.
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C&C welcome. Cheers!

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I understand that to use it you need to have full Python installed on system?

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Nope,you can download a self-contained .exe here: https://github.com/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdaterCLI/releases

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Great! This is what im looking for! Can You in future versions add option to delete all files/folders in directory to which the new blender version is copied before copy new files?

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can you open an issue on github for that to keep track of it? Thanks!

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Done. Where BlenderUpdaterCLI keep temporary downloaded archive fiile when -k argument is turn on?

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It creates a new folder within the folder the script resides where those files are kept.

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I use:

C:\C\BlenderUpdaterCLI.exe" -p H:\Blender\Blender2.81 -o windows -a x64 -k

After that i have no folder with zipped blender in C:\C\ directory

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that is weird - there should be a /blendertemp folder in there that contains the .zip… I’ll investigate!

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I have no blendertemp folder. I check the hidden files too

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Any news about missing temp folder? I use Your script everyday and this folder with previous version of blender is much needed.

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I cannot reproduce the error here. If the script is in C:\Tools\BlenderUpdater, it will create a C:\Tools\BlenderUpdater\blendertemp folder to download the .zip - and if the -k flag is set, it will not delete it afterwards. So on my end, it works as expected…

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Ok problem solved. I have BlenderUpdaterCLI.exe in “C:\C” - no folder blendertemp
When i move to “C:\C\BlenderUpdater\BlenderUpdaterCLI.exe” i have blendertemp folder in
“C:\C\BlenderUpdater\blendertemp”. Works great!

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Ah, thanks for the feedback!

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Thank you tobkum for this nice script!

Alternatively, you can also use Blender Version Manager (Windows/Linux):

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Updated to work with 2.81 and 2.82 nightly builds. Same for the Gui version over at https://github.com/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdater

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Where i find BlenderUpdaterCLI.exe version for nightly builds 2.82?

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Just download the latest version, works with all versions on the buildbot!

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