{"id":9220,"date":"2019-07-31T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2019-07-31T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:27:53","slug":"blender-2-80-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-16-04-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/blender-2-80-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-16-04-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 2.80 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blender-icon245x250.png\" alt=\"Blender 2.79\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5748\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blender 2.80 was officially released yesterday with redesigned UI, new render engine, and other improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/releases\/2-80\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blender 2.80<\/a> features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redesigned user interface with:\n<ul>\n<li>New dark theme and modern icon set<\/li>\n<li>Use the left mouse button for selection by default.<\/li>\n<li>Right-click context menu, and Quick Favorites menu (Q key)<\/li>\n<li>Templates, and Workspaces <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A new Workbench render engine<\/li>\n<li>The 3D viewport and UV editor have new interactive tools and gizmos, along with a new toolbar. <\/li>\n<li>Eevee &#8211; a new physically based real-time renderer.<\/li>\n<li>Grease Pencil gets full 2D drawing and animation support<\/li>\n<li>Combined CPU+GPU rendering for the Cycles renderer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender280.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Blender in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Blender offers official Snap packages (runs in sandbox) for Linux Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> and higher, simply search for and install it from <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">Note there are 3 Blender packages in Ubuntu Software: <code>blender snap<\/code>, <code>native .deb package<\/code>, and <code>blender-tpaw<\/code> (abandoned).<\/p>\n<p>Go check the package details, and install the one from Snap store.<\/div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender-snap-600x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender-snap-600x363.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender-snap-450x272.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender-snap-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blender-snap.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 16.04<\/b>, first open terminal (<b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>) and run command to install <code>snapd<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install snapd<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-600x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"103\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-600x103.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then install the official Blender snap package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap install blender --classic<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snapinstall-blender-600x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"126\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snapinstall-blender-600x126.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snapinstall-blender-450x95.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snapinstall-blender.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, launch it from your system application launcher and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>In addition<\/b>, for those who previously installed the snap of <b>Blender 2.80 Beta<\/b>, remove it before installing the stable package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap remove blender<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 2.80 was officially released yesterday with redesigned UI, new render engine, and other improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu. Blender 2.80 features: Redesigned user interface with: New dark theme and modern icon set Use the left mouse button for selection by default. Right-click context menu, and Quick Favorites menu (Q key) Templates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1614],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-blender-2-8"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","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=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}