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Questions tagged [linux]

Questions pertaining to the Linux Operating System as it relates to Blender. Questions can be anything from compatibility to optimization to making Blender work on a specific distro.

Questions pertaining to the Linux Operating System as it relates to Blender. Questions can be anything from compatibility to optimization to making Blender work on a specific distro.

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Blender via ssh?

I was just wondering if it is even remotely possible to setup a Blender installation on a server (probably Linux based); then, on another computer SSH into the server and use Blender. I believe if this were possible, it would probably run terribly,…
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What signals does Blender respond to?

By "signals" I mean the age-old unix signals like SIGSTOP, SIGQUIT, SIGPWR, SIGALRM, SIGUSR1, etc. Which ones does the Blender process not ignore, and how does it react to each? I'm curious about signals sent to Blender by the operating system,…
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Are there any special considerations for using Blender on Linux?

Are there any special considerations to be made when using Blender in Linux over Windows? Specifically Ubuntu?
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Blender on remote Linux machine via X server

I am trying to get Blender to start on a remote machine via an X11 session. I have tried this in the past (circa Blender 2.6 ~ 2.69) and it has worked without problems. The Linux machine (VM Running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) is setup with all necessary…
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Clipboard erased when quitting Blender on Ubuntu

If you highlight text in Blender and press CTLC to copy it, then quit Blender, you can no longer paste that text. Why not?
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Unable to run Blender 2.8 beta on Raspbian Buster

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB). I wanted to test Blender 2.8 on it, but I am unable to get it running. If I install the 2.79 stable version from the app store or terminal, it works perfectly. However, I am unable to run the Blender 2.8…
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Blender on Linux and Win10 – How to use the same file paths?

This might be more related to Linux than to Blender but maybe someone is using a similar setup... :) I'm using Blender 3.x on a dual-boot PC with Win10 and Ubuntu. Many older scenes were created on Windows with file paths pointing to the textures on…
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Blender 2.83.5 will not run if archive extracted with xarchive

If you extract the archive file blender-2.83.5-linux64.tar.xz with xarchiver you may get all of the files extracted into one directory. This obviously won't work, blender fails to start, generating several missing file errors, since the directory…
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Bug with Blender (the UI to be more specific) - weird stuttering and glitches

I installed Blender in my PC (Ubuntu 16.04) and I've this weird stuttering and glitches on the GUI when I mouse over the cube from the startup project in sculpt mode. Also, when I maximize the window the stuttering and glitches become permanent. The…
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help me to install and run version 2.9 in Ubuntu

How can I install Blender 2.9 in Ubuntu linux? I installed the blender 2.9 file and extract it then when I tried open it there was so many files so I ran the file which is named 'blender'. I have tried to run the file multiple times, but have failed…
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Blender 2.83.2 crashing plasmashell 5.19.3 Arch linux

I'm running into a weird bug here and I can't find other resources. I installed Blender with pacman and it opens and runs smoothly, then randomly something will cause it freeze the entire plasma session. I am running blender on a 32 gb Dell Latitude…
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How to install/use Blender 2.8 on CentOS 7.6?

I use Centos 7.6 and I am having issues to run Blender because there are problems with my libraries in my case "libmvec.so.1" is not found it seems that is due to the gclib version, I was looking for solutions and it seems that to solve it I would…
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Blender Crashes on Startup (Linux Mint 64bit)

So every time I try to run blender it starts to show the window, but then crashes. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, purging (sudo apt-get purge blender). I've tried downloading from the Blender website and running that version (after…
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Smooth shading only works when object is selected

I have issue with smooth shading. When I put smooth shading on some example UV spheres the smoothed sphere is the one which is selected. When I select other sphere, the other is now smoothed. I'm working on Linux and Blender v2.76. My friend told me…
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Blender won't start on Tails 1.4 (Debian)

amnesia@amnesia:~/Desktop/blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64$ ls 2.74 GPL3-license.txt LICENSE-bmonofont-i18n.ttf.txt blender GPL-license.txt LICENSE-droidsans.ttf.txt blenderplayer icons …
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