{"id":5398,"date":"2015-11-09T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2015-11-09T06:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:32:23","slug":"install-blender-2-76-ubuntu-1510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/install-blender-2-76-ubuntu-1510\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Blender 2.76b in Ubuntu 15.10, 14.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/blender_icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/blender_icon.png\" alt=\"blender ppa\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/blender_icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/blender_icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blender, a professional free and open-source 3D graphics software, has reached the 2.76b release. The &#8216;b&#8217; release brings a few bugfixes to the 2.76 release which was released a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>For Blender 2.76 new features see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/features\/2-76\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>, and the 2.76b fixed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crash generating previews<\/li>\n<li>crash with metas &#038; particles<\/li>\n<li>Select linked crash with wire seam edges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender276b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender276b-600x326.jpg\" alt=\"blender276b\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender276b-600x326.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender276b-450x245.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender276b.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install \/ Upgrade Blender via PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/install-the-latest-blender-release-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\">installing from the official binary manually<\/a>, you can install Blender and receive future updates using a PPA repository. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>1. Add PPA.<\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE: As an unofficial PPA, you may first check <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~thomas-schiex\/+archive\/ubuntu\/blender\" target=\"_blank\">the PPA page<\/a> for the current Blender packages and supported Ubuntu editions.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, run below command to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex\/blender<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender-ppa-450x71.jpg\" alt=\"blender-ppa\" width=\"450\" height=\"71\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender-ppa-450x71.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender-ppa-600x95.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blender-ppa.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type your password when it asks (type in mind and hit enter, there&#8217;s no display when typing password). <\/p>\n<p>2. If you have a previous installed via Ubuntu Software Center or PPA, launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> and upgrade Blender after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/upgrade-blender-via-updater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/upgrade-blender-via-updater-450x391.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade-blender-via-updater\" width=\"450\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/upgrade-blender-via-updater-450x391.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/upgrade-blender-via-updater-600x522.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/upgrade-blender-via-updater.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, install it via Software Center (check updates needed), Synaptic Package Manager, or via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install blender<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender, a professional free and open-source 3D graphics software, has reached the 2.76b release. The &#8216;b&#8217; 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: Crash generating previews crash with metas &#038; particles Select linked crash with wire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[771,772],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-blender","tag-blender-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}