Installation using the Package Manager
This method will show you how to install Blender in Linux using the Package Manager
Step 1 : The first thing you have to do is to open your web browser
Step 2 : Navigate to this official site of the blender.
Figure-5: Downloading blender from Blender’s Website
Step 3: Next, you have to click or select the required version that satisfies your local system
Step 4: Click download to download the package of the blender and select the export path for the launch
Step 5: Once you can see that the download is being completed then navigate to the download directory and extract the tar file using the following command:
tar -xJf filename.tar.xz
In this command:
- ‘tar’ is the command to work with tar archives.
- ‘-x’ stands for extract.
- ‘-J’ tells ‘tar’ to use the ‘xz‘ compression format.
- ‘-f‘ specifies the filename of the archive you want to extract, followed by ‘filename.tar.xz’.
Replace filename with the actual name of the tar.xz archive you want to extract.
Figure-6: Extracting Blender
Step 6: Now you have to navigate to the blender installed directory and launch blender by using the following command:
blender
Figure-7: Installed Blender through the web browser
The Ultimate Guide to Installing Blender on Linux Systems
Blender is one of the friendly tools that is used for making 3D things on computers. Artists and designers like to work with it a lot. This article will help you to install the software Blender on Kali Linux(for installing Kali Linux on your virtual box you can check here) or in Ubuntu very easily. You can get it from Blender’s website, or by using a package manager. After you install Blender you can start creating 3D stuff. In this article, there are a few steps to install Blender and access it.