Scripts in Linux

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Where are all the scripts in Linux and how do I add new scripts? If I open Scripts window there are no scripts. If I click Update menu I get this error:

Invalid scripts dir: check console

What’s wrong and how do I fix this?

2

How did you install blender? Find out where the scripts are, and copy them into /home/username/.blender/scripts

notice .blender is a hidden directory. You can find where the scripts are on your system by doing an “updatedb” as root, and then “locate wings_import.py” which is one of the scripts.

3

“locate wings_import.py” didn’t found anything. I copied a script I found on the internet in the /home/username/.blender and that script is not in blender. If I click Update menus I get the same error as before.

4

In some linux distributions the provided version of blender is old and does not have any of the scripts. You are much better off downloading a copy from blender.org. I get the binary dynamic copy with python 2.4, usually no need to build from source.

bzip2 -d then tar xvf perhaps in your home directory then all the scripts will be in the /home/username/blender-2.41-linux-glibc232-py24-i386/.blender/scripts directory.

5

  1. Did you first “updatedb” as root to update the locate database?

  2. The scripts go in /home/username/.blender/scripts/

where username is your username, ie. dave, or sally. So, you would have

/home/dave/.blender/scripts/blenderscript.py

as an example.

6

Thanks man. It works.