How to install Blender 3D in Ubuntu and derivatives?

Blender is a multiplatform program, dedicated especially to modeling, lighting, rendering, animation and creation of three-dimensional graphics. Also of digital composition using the procedural technique of nodes, video editing, sculpture (includes dynamic topology) and digital painting.

In Blender, In addition, video games can be developed since it has an internal game engine. The program was initially distributed free of charge, but without the source code, with a manual available for sale, although it later became free software.

Today it is compatible with all versions of Windows, Mac OS X, GNU / Linux (Including Android), Solaris, FreeBSD and IRIX.

This time We will see some ways to install this software on our system.

The first method what will we see is to perform the installation from the package on the official Blender website which provides tar.bz2 files for the latest stable and beta versions of Blender, in the following link.

On the website they will be able to choose the version of Blender according to the architecture of their system. Once the file has been downloaded, we are going to right click on the Blender tar.bz2 file and select "Extract here" from the options.

At the end of this seeWe will have a folder with the same name, open the folder and try to locate the executable file "blender".

Once identified, we must right click on the 'blender' file and then select "Run" from the options. This will open the application.

As you will see, this basically does not generate any installation, simply every time you need to run the application, you must run Blender in this way.

If you require something more advanced, you can move the folder to / opt and create a shortcut of the executable to / bin.

Installing Blender 3D through Ubuntu repositories

The above method allows you to be able to have the beta versions and even the stable versions almost instantly.

In this other method where the installation from the repositories will be performedIn the same way, it is simple, but as you will know in the Ubuntu repositories, program updates tend to take longer.

To install from this method, We have two ways, the first is to install from our software center, where we only look for the application and install.

The second is from the terminal, where we are going to open one in our system with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we are going to execute:

sudo apt-get install blender

Blender installation from PPA

Following the installation from repositories, In this method we can choose to add a repository of "third parties" where we can obtain the benefit of having Blender updates quite quickly, unlike the previous method.

To add the third-party repository to our system, we are going to open a terminal and we are going to type the following in it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender

Once this is done, now we are going to update our list of packages with:

sudo apt-get update

And finally we are going to perform the installation with:

sudo apt-get install blender

Install Blender from Snap

Another simple method to obtain this application is by installing the Blender Snap package, therefore both Ubuntu, as well as the most current derivatives of it, are mostly supported by Snap.

So to perform the installation, just open a terminal and type in it:

sudo snap install blender –classic

If you don't have this Snap support, you can add it to your system with:

sudo apt-get install snapd xdg-open-snapd

How to uninstall Blender from Ubuntu and derivatives?

If for any reason you want to remove this software from your system, You can do it in one of the following ways, depending on the installation method you have chosen.

If you chose to download the tar pack offered from the Blender website, just delete the folder where the Blender launcher is located.

Now If you installed from Ubuntu repositories, just run the following command from the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove Blender

If it was from a third-party repository, the process is the same only as if you want to also remove the repository, additionally you must execute this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender -r

Y finally If you did the installation from Snap, in a terminal you will execute this:

sudo snap remove blender