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I've use the Ubuntu 14.04. Know anyone how can I install the latest version of blender from terminal? And after that how can I make cycle render work?

zeffii
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Vildnex
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    Could you clarify what you mean by the "last version"? – gandalf3 Aug 12 '15 at 23:40
  • The last version of blender... 2.75a – Vildnex Aug 13 '15 at 00:05
  • I'm not sure what you want.. If you uninstall blender, how do you plan on running cycles? (unless perhaps you want to use the standalone version of cycles, without blender?) – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 00:09
  • What.... no man.... I've try to find how can I INSTALL Blender 2.75a and after that how can MAKE THE CYCLES render to works. – Vildnex Aug 13 '15 at 00:11
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    Oh, I see.. Sorry about that (idk what my eyes were thinking). What exactly do you mean by "install from terminal"? You can "install" it multiple ways (install from PPA, or extract the zip) via the CLI, what exactly do you want to achieve (why from the terminal specifically)? – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 00:12
  • Np, so did you know how can I do that? – Vildnex Aug 13 '15 at 00:14
  • Soooo. . . download from Blender.org, and double click the blenderapp.exe file . . . switch render engines in the top info/menu bar – J Sargent Aug 13 '15 at 00:14
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    @NoviceInDisguise There's no .exe on linux ;) – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 00:15
  • I want to download if from terminal some how... because if I've download from site with SH as extension I don't know how to add him after that on application bar. – Vildnex Aug 13 '15 at 00:18
  • And one more thing @NoviceInDisguise, in Linux, any linux distribution the Cycles render don't work at start... first I need to download and install nvidia CUDA toolkit, but I don't know how... – Vildnex Aug 13 '15 at 00:20
  • Regarding cycles, CPU rendering should work out of the box. GPU rendering will require a compatible graphics card and drivers, but unless you're compiling blender from source you shouldn't need the toolkit. See http://blender.stackexchange.com/q/7485/599 – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 00:24
  • oh right, been ages since i used linux – J Sargent Aug 13 '15 at 00:38
  • Depending on your DE, you can create a .desktop file or similar to create a blender launcher. See http://askubuntu.com/q/13758/183331 – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 00:41
  • Related: http://askubuntu.com/a/169546/183331 – gandalf3 Aug 13 '15 at 19:03

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I don't have any experience the terminal, but you might be able to achieve the same effect by using Steam. Blender can be downloaded for linux on Steam, which should setup a desktop icon as well. enter image description here I hope this helps, my experience with linux is rather limited (:

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It sounds to me like you're asking for the package management command to revert to an older package. apt caches versions of packages and repositories often keep legacy packages around after an upgrade.

sudo apt-get install <package-name>=<package-version-number>

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sudo apt-get -t=<target release> install <package-name>

will install a specific version of the package in question (downgrade, upgrade, different architecture, etc).

To see all available versions of the package, run apt-cache showpkg <package-name>

If you wish to freeze a package at that specific version, run apt-mark hold <package-name>

This answer was adapted from Ask Ubuntu

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