Updating Blender

[gimcrack]

Thanks Dove ; )
I did mention right at the beginning of this thread that I was new to Linux, usually I just stick to 'MX Installer' to install packages. I'm now beginning to understand why the packages are 'older' versions, and it makes great sense, knowing that the packages listed are in effect known to be stable on MX Linux .............. obviously things take time to settle down and fix errors and bugs and whatnot.

Normally I wouldn't bother running the very latest apps/programs, but as I'm wanting to learn Blender 3D I thought it best to run the same version that the tutor is running.



TURK

The download on their site is simple to install. You're really not installing it. It's actually in it's own container(sorta). I download it and extract it. After that I just click on the blender-launcher. It will ask what I want to do. I just click on execute and Blender launches. Which is version 4.4.3.

[dove]

My above instructions integrate the Blender "container" into the your OS so Blender shows up in your menu and you can right click on a .blend file and open with Blender.

[Stevo]

You can get an unoffical 4.2.0 appimage, but I don't see much point to it: https://github.com/erroreutopia/Blender ... ender4.2.0

[dove]

Some more thoughts- I find making a custom launcher that points to the Blender launcher in the Blender folder works better than dragging and dropping from the menu.
If your video card has RTX in front of the name you need to install

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sudo apt install libnvoptix1

to use your RTX cores with "optix" (edit-preferences-system)