How to install the latest Blender release in Ubuntu. Install Blender 2.78 on Ubuntu 16.04, via Blender Ubuntu PPA (ppa:thomas-schiex/blender). Blender is a 3D animation software for Linux Ubuntu Systems.
Blender 2.78
Blender 2.78 has been released with spherical Stereo images rendering support for VR and viewport rendering improvements. It also brings new freehand curves drawing over surfaces and new add-ons and many more features.
Blender 2.78 Features
1. Modeling – New freehand curve drawing tool uses curve fitting for bezier curves, with error and corner angle options, support for tablet pressure, drawing aligned or perpendicular to a surface, tapering, redo operator and calling from Python.
2. Animation & Rigging – Shapes can now be controlled directly using a series of properties. Define a “curved rest pose” for the bone, and use custom bones as their reference bone handles.
3. Cycles Render Engine
- Optimizations: Several memory savings & speedups, support for CPU groups
- GPU rendering: support for GTX NVIDIA 10×0, improved support for GTX 980 Ti and Titan X, memory improvements for CUDA & OpenCL
- Better Subdivision & Micro Displacement experimental feature improved
- Smoke volume support for Velocity and Heat attributes
- Fluid simulation mesh support for motion blur and motion vectors
- Point Density textures now support vertex color, weight and normals
4. Spherical Stereo VR – Cycles now supports rendering spherical stereo images for VR. Including support for pole merging to reduce artifacts when looking straight up or down.
5. UI & Other Changes
- Render border is now compatible with cached render results (image above), save buffers and full sample anti-aliasing, camera frame.
- New vertical alignment options for Text objects
- Better CPU Threading Handling and Undo Memory Usage optimizations
- 2D Stabilization improvements
- Dynamic Base Mesh: new option allows animating the rest shape of cloth using shape keys or modifiers above the Cloth modifier
- Simulation Speed: it is now possible to adjust how quickly time flows for the cloth simulation, using a new Speed option
Install Blender
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Blender 3D content-creation program on Linux Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and other Ubuntu Derivative Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install blender
Once installed, open the Blender software from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
Uninstall Blender
If you want to uninstall and remove Blender, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove blender