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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}/
- Search for Blender in your Application Launcher
- The application with the exact name
blender
without any suffix is the latest build.
Launch Blender from Terminal
- Open a new Terminal window
- 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.
Login as root user using
su
Run
rollback_blender.sh
from any folderpowershellAvailable 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):
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):
Select a build by enter a number and pressing Enter to confirm
Build Blender Locally
Download Git repo
bashmkdir ~/blender-git cd ~/blender-git git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git
mkdir ~/blender-git cd ~/blender-git git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git
Build Blender
bashcd ~/blender-git/blender make update make
cd ~/blender-git/blender make update make
Find your built blender
cd ../build_linux
Debug Build
- Search for Blender in your Application Launcher
- The application with the exact name
blender debug
without any suffix is the latest build, it should have a grey icon.