Blender 2.82 was released as the second update for the 2.80 series. The snap package has been updated for Ubuntu 18.04 and higher.
Blender 2.82 comes with over a thousand fixes and several important updates. Changes in the new release include:
New Mantaflow system allows to create mind-blowing fire and smoke simulations.
New FLIP solver to create lifelike liquids
Improved Cloth Simulations
The popular tiled-based UV mapping system is now fully integrated
Pixar’s USD export support.
Cycles supports AI-Accelerated Denoiser from OptiX, for NVIDIA RTX graphics cards.
AI denoising, Grease Pencil improvements, and much more!
How to Install Blender 2.82 in Ubuntu:
Blender offers official Snap packages (runs in sandbox) for Linux Desktop. If you’ve already installed the snap package, it will be updated automatically.
For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, simply search for and install it from Ubuntu Software:
Note there are 3 Blender packages in Ubuntu Software: blender snap, native .deb package, and blender-tpaw (abandoned).
Go check the package details, and install the one from Snap store.
For Ubuntu 16.04, first open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install snapd:
sudo apt install snapd
Then install the official Blender snap package via command:
sudo snap install blender --classic
Once installed, launch it from your system application launcher and enjoy!
Blender 2.79 was finally released a day ago after 2 release candidates. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and derivatives.
For third-party binaries, Blender is also available via Snap and traditional PPA. You can install both or either one via following steps.
Install Blender in Ubuntu via Snap:
Blender 2.79 is also available as snap package, which is large in file, but bundles almost all required libraries. Available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher.
1. For Ubuntu 14.04 only, install snapd daemon if you don’t have it:
sudo apt-get install snapd xdg-open-snapd
2. If you have installed the snap package “blender-tpaw” (2.78c so far), first remove it via:
sudo snap remove blender-tpaw
3. Finally run command to install blender 2.79 snap maintained by another guy:
sudo snap install blender --classic
Install Blender 2.79 via PPA in Ubuntu:
Thomas Schiex’s PPA contains the Blender packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04.
NOTE that Blender 2.79 is not ready in the PPA at the moment of writing. Be patient, it will be there in a few days.
Blender 2.78b, a 2.78a release-compatible update was announced yesterday with important speedups, especially in Cycles and for Dependency graph.
BLender 2.78b comes with Cycles Speedups that were announced last month. Most notable will be faster rendering of Motion blur with hair, which has a 5-10 time speedup – important for production rendering. Also there are various bug-fixes.
How to Install Blender 2.78b in Ubuntu:
Blender is now available as SNAP package, first install snapd via command sudo apt install snapd in terminal, then you’re able to search for and install blender-tpaw in Ubuntu Software.
For those who don’t like the SNAP version, Blender 2.78b is also available in Thomas Schiex’s PPA, supports for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and derivatives.
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
Type in your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit enter.
2. Then you can upgrade Blender from an existing version via Software Updater (or Update Manager) after checking for updates.
Or install blender package either via Synaptic Package Manager or via commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender
Uninstall:
If you installed blender from PPA repository, run the following command in terminal to remove the PPA and downgrade Blender to the stock version available in Ubuntu main repositories.
The Blender Foundation has recently announced the release of Blender 2.78. Here’s how to install or upgrade it via PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Linux Mint 18, 17.
What’s new in Blender 2.78:
spherical stereo rendering support for VR
a grease pencil for full 2D drawing and animations
viewport rendering improvements
freehand curves drawing over surfaces
bendy bones support
alembic support
The Cycles Render Engine has NVIDIA Pascal support
new physics capabilities, and various new add-ons.
Install/upgrade to Blender 2.78 via PPA:
Thomas Schiex is maintaining a PPA with most recent Blender release for Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Linux Mint 17, 18.
So you can easily install Blender 2.78 or upgrade from a previous release by following the steps below:
There may be a little delay before the current release being made into PPA. Check out the PPA webpage, and read the PPA description before doing below steps.
1.) Open terminal from App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T keys. When it opens, paste below command and hit run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
2.) Then upgrade Blender by launching Software Updater.
Or install it by running the commands one by one in terminal:
Blender, a professional free and open-source 3D graphics software, has reached the 2.76b release. The ‘b’ release brings a few bugfixes to the 2.76 release which was released a month ago.
For Blender 2.76 new features see HERE, and the 2.76b fixed:
Thomas Schiex is maintaining a PPA with latest Blender packages, support for Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 so far. Follow below steps to add PPA and install/upgrade Blender.
1. Add PPA.
NOTE: As an unofficial PPA, you may first check the PPA page for the current Blender packages and supported Ubuntu editions.
Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, run below command to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
Type your password when it asks (type in mind and hit enter, there’s no display when typing password).
2. If you have a previous installed via Ubuntu Software Center or PPA, launch Software Updater and upgrade Blender after checking for updates.
Or, install it via Software Center (check updates needed), Synaptic Package Manager, or via commands:
Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program, has recently reached the 2.75 release, which features AMD OpenCL rendering and fully integrated stereo/multiview support.
Blender Foundation and developer community announced the release of Blender 2.75 on July 1st. The main highlights of this release are:
Blender now supports a fully integrated Multi-View and Stereo 3D pipeline
Cycles has much awaited initial support for AMD GPUs, and a new Light Portals feature.
UI now allows font previews in the file browser.
High quality options for viewport depth of field were added
Modeling has a new Corrective Smooth modifier.
The Decimate modifier was improved significantly.
3D viewport painting now supports symmetry and the distribution of Dynamic Topology was improved
Video Sequence Editor: Placeholders can now replace missing frames of image sequences
Game Engine now allows smoother LOD transitions, and supports mist attributes animation
And: 100s of bug fixes and smaller feature improvements.
Since the official package is not well integrated with Ubuntu desktop, you can alternatively install Blender from Thomas Schiex’s PPA, and receive future updates through Software Updater.
To do so, run below commands one by one in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) window:
Note that there might be a small delay before a new release to be made into the PPA. You may check out the PPA web page for the Blender version.
In addition, to associate .blend files with Blender go to file’s context menu (right-click menu) -> Properties -> Open With tab -> select Blender software from the list and finally click the Set as default button.
How to Install or Upgrade to Blender 2.74 in Ubuntu:
While Blender website provides a portable version for download, you can always install the latest release via these steps in another post(You may first remove the previous Blender installation).
There are some guys maintaining the most recent Blender release in PPAs. Below are some of them:
Blender, the popular 3D graphics and animation software, has reached the 2.73 release with numerous improvements, stabilization and bug fixes.
A major upgrade was given to the Grease Pencil tool, which inter alia brought the ability to edit and animate strokes. The first developments from the Gooseberry Project like a Sequencer Backdrop, Cycles viewport world background and others were added. Cycles got various improvements and speedups, as well as support for cameras inside volumes, the UI got a new ‘minimalistic’ fullscreenmode and Input Method Editor support for textbuttons (used for complex Chinese and Japanese character input), the Knife-tool was improved, Freestyle got a SVG exporter, and many more features which are worth checking out!
While Ubuntu repositories provide an old Blender version, you can always follow this tutorial to install the latest release from the official package. Tested in Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and it should work in Ubuntu 10.04 and higher.
Blender is a professional free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games.
So far the latest stable release is Blender 2.72b, which was released a week ago. See the new features in its website.
While Blender in Ubuntu Software Center is old and there’s no PPA repository that always provides the latest binaries, follow the steps below to install the latest release with new features and bug fixes:
Thanks to Thomas Schiex, he is maintaining a PPA that contains the most recent Blender packages for all current Ubuntu releases, though there may be a small delay before the new release made into PPA.
To add the PPA and install Blender, run below commands one by one:
2. Download Blender for GNU/Linux from the official link below. You may first check your OS type, 32-bit or 64-bit, by clicking on “About This computer” from shutdown menu (top-right corner gear button).
3. – a). For single use – If you have only one user on the Ubuntu system, just extract the package to user Downloads folder and run the executable from the result folder:
3. – b). To make all users to be able to run the blender release, extract the package to /opt/ directory.
To do so, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, run command below to open your Downloads folder as root/administrator:
gksudo nautilus ~/Downloads
Install gksu from Ubuntu Software Center if need. Type in your user password when it asks.
When the folder opens, do:
Right click on Blender package and select open with Archive Manager.
When Archive Manager opens, select Extract to computer -> /opt/
When done, you should see the blender folder under /opt/. For shot, I’ve rename it from “blender-2.72b-linux-glibc211-x86_64” to “blender”.
4. Create a launcher for Blender so that we can start it from the Unity Dash or App Menu.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run command to create .desktop file and edit it with Gedit text editor:
When the file opens, paste below into it and save.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Blender-2.7
Name[de]=Blender-2.7
Name[fr]=Blender-2.7
GenericName=3D modeller
GenericName[de]=3D Modellierer
GenericName[fr]=modeleur 3D
GenericName[ru]=Редактор 3D-моделей
Comment=Create and edit 3D models and animations
Comment[de]=Erstellen und Editieren von 3D Modellen und Animationen
Comment[fr]=Création et édition d'objets 3D et animations
Comment[ru]=Создание и редактирование трёхмерных моделей и анимаций
Exec=/opt/blender/blender
Icon=/opt/blender/icons/scalable/apps/blender.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;3DGraphics;
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=application/x-blender;
Depends on step 3, you may replace path to Exec & Icon (words in red).
When done, you should be able to open Blender from the Unity Dash or App Menu. Enjoy!