Working with Blender

Launch Blender from Taskbar/Start Menu

This will launch the Blender that is pre-installed on your workstation and updated daily via the package manager. Your Blender configuration including add-ons is stored at $HOME/.config/blender/{version}/

1. Search for Blender in your Application Launcher
2. The application with the exact name blender without any suffix is the latest build.

Launch Blender from Terminal

1. Open a new Terminal window
2. Type command blender

Roll Back Blender Build

Your workstation's package manager will update blender daily, to roll back to a previous version follow the guide below.

1. Login as root user using su

2. Run rollback_blender.sh from any folder

   Available builds:
   
   ID:   1 (2023-03-30 06:10)
   ID:   2 (2023-03-30 17:13)
   ID:   3 (2023-03-30 17:40)
   ID:   4 (2023-04-02 22:07)
   ID:   5 (2023-04-03 20:12)
   ID:   6 (2023-04-11 20:12)
   ID:   7 (2023-04-20 20:12) <installed>
   
   Select which Blender build number to switch to. 
   (press ENTER to confirm):

3. Select a build by enter a number and pressing Enter to confirm

Build Blender Locally

1. Download Git repo

   mkdir ~/blender-git
   cd ~/blender-git
   git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git

2. Build Blender

   cd ~/blender-git/blender
   make update
   make

3. Find your built blender cd ../build_linux

Debug Build

1. Search for Blender in your Application Launcher
2. The application with the exact name blender debug without any suffix is the latest build, it should have a grey icon.