How to install Blender in Ubuntu, via command line. Blender 2.77a can be installed via PPA on Linux Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems.
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
Blender 2.77a
The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.77, released March 19th, 2016! The 2.77a update was done on April 6, with a number of important bug fixes. In this release:
- Cycles: Better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density.
- Grease pencil stroke sculpting and improved workflow.
- OpenVDB caching for smoke/volumetric simulations.
- Reworked library handling to manage missing and deleted datablocks.
- Redesigned progress bar.
- Edit mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier.
- Improved extruding and weight painting tools for sculpting/painting.
- Support for Windows XP and the SCons build system was removed.
- Blender now requires OpenGL 2.1 minimum
- And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!
User Interface
- Progress bars got a complete design overhaul.
- Support for multi-line text in tooltips, render stamps, frame nodes and meta data display.
- Better anti-aliasing for OpenGL renders.
- And more!
Cycles Rendering
- Improved Subsurface Scattering, and faster SSS on GPUs.
- Smoke/Fire and Point Density support on GPU.
- Customizable motion blur position, support for rolling shutter.
- Custom baking passes.
- Performance optimizations for large node shaders.
- Improved default settings.
More Features
- OpenVDB caching: smoke/volumetric simulations can now be cached using OpenVDB as a back-end
- Better threading handling: Blender is now massively multi-threaded
- Compositing: new invert option to the 2D stabilization node, use mask name as mask node label, expose track velocity as an output of Track Position node, new option to extend image bounds when blurring
- Image Editor: now allows visualizing individual R,G and B channels
- Cubemap: world textures are now supported in the Blender Internal engine 3D viewport
- Spotlights: now they can be scaled on one or several axis (Rectangle and ellipse shapes).
Install Or Update Blender 2.77a
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Blender 2.77a on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install blender
Once installed, open the Blender app from Ubuntu Dash or Menu. If you wish to uninstall and remove Blender software from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove blender