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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}/

  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

    powershell
    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):
    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

    bash
    mkdir ~/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
  2. Build Blender

    bash
    cd ~/blender-git/blender
    make update
    make
    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.