{"id":43845,"date":"2023-03-31T02:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43845"},"modified":"2023-03-31T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:45:37","slug":"blender-3-5-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/blender-3-5-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 3.5 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35985\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blender-icon1200.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blender 3.5, the popular 3D creation software, was released few days ago. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.<\/p>\n<p>The new release features <b>26 built-in hair assets<\/b>, allows to drag and drop to use onto your setups. As well, it allows to do many actions on hair curves, such as generate, duplicate, deform, trim, rotate, roll up, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It also added support for <b>Vector Displacement Maps (VDM) brushes<\/b>, new <b>GPU-based 3D viewport compositor<\/b>, many lights sampling for Cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/releases\/3-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blender 3.5<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use native Metal in macOS for 3D viewport.<\/li>\n<li>New options and shortcuts for Pose Library.<\/li>\n<li>New Ease operator in the Graph Editor<\/li>\n<li>New Natural Drawing Speed timing mode in the Build modifier<\/li>\n<li>Support for Importing and exporting USDZ files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43846\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350-600x309.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350-600x309.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350-300x154.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350-768x395.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blender350.webp 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Blender 3.5 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<h4>Option 1: Install Blender as Snap<\/h4>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 20.04<\/b> and higher, it&#8217;s super easy to install the latest Blender package through the official Snap package.<\/p>\n<p>Simply open Ubuntu Software, search for &#8216;Blender&#8217; and click install it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40701\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap-600x327.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap-600x327.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap-300x163.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap-768x418.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blender-snap.webp 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if Ubuntu software in 18.04 has added support for Snap, but user can just press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal and run command to install the daemon &amp; Blender as snap:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install snapd &amp;&amp; sudo snap install blender --classic<\/pre>\n<h4>Option 2: Install Blender via the Linux tarball<\/h4>\n<p>Some users do not like the snap package that runs in sandbox. For choice, Blender website offers the portable Linux tarball:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Blender<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/blender-3-0-released-install-tarball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step by step guide<\/a> shows how to create app shortcut for the portable package.<\/p>\n<p>Blender is also available to install as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/org.blender.Blender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a>. For those prefer the classic .deb package, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~savoury1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/blender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-party PPA<\/a>, though not updated at the moment of writing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 3.5, the popular 3D creation software, was released few days ago. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. The new release features 26 built-in hair assets, allows to drag and drop to use onto your setups. 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