Hello Linux Geeksters. I have previously shown you how to install Blender 2.67 on Ubuntu.
As you may know, Blender is a powerful suite for animation, modeling, interactive creation, post-production with support for a lot of file formats.
Blender 2.67b has been released. It does not bring new features, but a lot of bugfixes (see here a full list of fixes)
In this article I will show you how to install Blender 2.67b on Linux systems. Because it not available in any ppa, for now, we will have to install it from sources. So this guide works for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Debian Sid, Debian Wheezy, Debian Squeeze, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 14 Nadia, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, OpenSUSE 12.1 and many others.
Let’s start.
Download Blender 2.67b, for 32 bit systems:
$ wget -c download.blender.org/release/Blender2.67/blender-2.67b-linux-glibc211-i686.tar.bz2
Download Blender 2.67b, for 64 bit systems:
$ wget -c download.blender.org/release/Blender2.67/blender-2.67b-linux-glibc211-x86_64.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd to the extracted folder:
$ tar blender-2.67b-linux-glibc211-*.tar.bz2
$ cd blender-2.67b-linux-glibc211-*
Set execution permissions:
$ sudo chmod +x blender
Run the Blender executable:
$ ./blender