Install Downloaded Blender on Ubuntu - blender-softwaregl or blender-launcher?

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Hello
I dont want to use blender from the official software source from Ubuntu or use the ppa.
I wondering how to install Blender from blender-4.1.1-linux-x64.tar.xz on my Ubuntu system. Adding the starter to my menu.
I unpacked Blender an tried to copy the blender.desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications but this it not working, because the command inside is just “blender” but this command is not found (because ist not installed yust downloaded).
Ok, so next thing I want to make to set the command to one of:
/home/user/Applications/blender-4.1.1-linux-x64/blender-launcher
/home/user/Applications/blender-4.1.1-linux-x64/blender-softwaregl

So, I think I have two questions:

  1. what is the different between blender-launcher and blender-softwaregl? (I always find another programm “Blender Launcher” wenn I search for answers)
  2. how would you install a downloaded Blender (from tar.xz?)

Thanks

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Please refer to the manual and video to install it.
The video is the same as version 3.0, but there will be no difference in how to install it.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/installing/linux.html

3

Sorry, but this has nothing to do with my question… I don’t want to use blender from package or ppa :wink:

For question 1 I found this answer:

… ‘blender-softwaregl’ which allows Blender to run on computers without OpenGL compatible graphics hardware.
Source: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52980
is this correct?

So for question 2:
This is my way for the installation:
just edit the blender.desktop file, change
"Exec=blender %f"
to
"Exec=/home/user/Application/blender-3.6.12-LTS/blender-launcher %f"
and copy desktop file to
$HOME/.local/share/applications.
Don’t forget to make it executable. So it is now possible to open blendfiles on the pc direcly with Blender (open with)

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Hi,
I never installed Blender on my Ubuntu or Debian, just use the tar.xz downloaded from Blender org.

  1. Put the downloaded file in a folder of your choice.
  2. create a .desktop file in usr/share/applications with at least these lines below:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Blender 4.0.2

Exec=/YourPathToBlenderFolder/blender %f
Icon=/YourPathToBlenderFolder/blender.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true

MimeType=application/x-blender;

“Name” = what yuou want
“Terminal” = your choice (true or false)

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what is the different between blender-launcher and blender-softwaregl? (I always find another programm “Blender Launcher” wenn I search for answers)

The executable is just ‘blender’, try double click it.

Hope it helps