Blender Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian

Blender Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian

blender

Command-line interface to the Blender 3D computer graphics application.
Arguments are executed in the order they are given.

Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers



Section: graphics

Install blender

  • Debian apt-get install blender Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install blender Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S blender Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install blender Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install blender Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install blender Click to copy

Command-line interface to the Blender 3D computer graphics application. Arguments are executed in the order they are given.

How to use blender?

Below are few example commands for blender that you can use in the terminal.

Render all frames of an animation in the background, without loading the UI (output is saved to `/tmp`):
blender -b filename.blend -aClick to copy
Render an animation using a specific image naming pattern, in a path relative (`//`) to the .blend file:
blender -b filename.blend -o //render/frame_###.png -aClick to copy
Render the 10th frame of an animation as a single image, saved to an existing folder (absolute path):
blender -b filename.blend -o /path/to/output_folder -f 10Click to copy
Render the second last frame in an animation as a JPEG image, saved to an existing folder (relative path):
blender -b filename.blend -o //output_folder -F JPEG -f -2Click to copy
Render the animation of a specific scene, starting at frame 10 and ending at frame 500:
blender -b filename.blend -S scene_name -s 10 -e 500 -aClick to copy
Render an animation at a specific resolution, by passing a Python expression:
blender -b filename.blend --python-expr 'import bpy; bpy.data.scenes[0].render.resolution_percentage = 25' -aClick to copy
Start an interactive Blender session in the terminal with a python console (do `import bpy` after starting):
blender -b --python-consoleClick to copy
Install the latest version of blender in Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora and Raspbian from terminal. To install the blender just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of blender from the respository and install it in your computer/server.