I Have blender-2.43RC2-linux-glibc232-py24-i386 in my home directory, in ubuntu-6.10. I have tried copying, and symlinking the binary to /usr/bin, using sudo, the resulting file has the same permissions as an apt-gotten blender-2.42a does. Bash says no such file or directory when I try to run blender.
Any geusses what I am missing?
JF
Left out what might be the most important factor, i am using the amd64 version of ubuntu.
JF
Have you tried making a shortcut icon to link to your Blender 2.43 RC 2 ?
Can you try typing blender.bin instead of “blender” ?
For manually installed programs you usually use the /usr/local tree, so I would make a link to your Blender executable in /usr/local/bin. You can even rename the link to something else than blender if you want, maybe it’s a good idea to do that if you also have the Ubuntu Blender installed from the repositories.
/usr/local/bin should be in your path, so you should be able to start your program from anywhere with the name of the symlink you just created.
A bit more advanced way would be to not make a link in /usr/local/bin, but to put a shell script there that calls your Blender. But that’s only necessary if you want to run some commands before starting Blender, like setting environment variables or such stuff.
Please keep in mind that you might run into issues when you run 32bit Blender on a 64bit system. Your 64bit python from Ubuntu won’t work then with Blender, for example. Other than that it should run, maybe you would need to install some 32bit compatibility libs from Ubuntu though. If you run into problems with that, I might be able to help further, since I’m also on amd64 (Kubuntu).
I compiled my own Blender in the end for python support. My binary probably wouldn’t help you though, because I’m still on Dapper (6.06).
Good luck, Sanne