Questions tagged [installation]
Questions regarding installation of Blender should use this tag. Also, use the respective operating system tag: windows, mac, or linux.
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Why can't I undo any more? [duplicate]
Yesterday Blender was working fine. Today it isn't recording any history, I can't undo anything. Also, when I add a new mesh, all the options in the Operator section of the Tool Shelf are grayed out, ...
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Oscurart Tools installation
I am running Blender 2.75. I installed Oscurart Tools and simply can't find the tool. I enabled it in User Preferences, but I don't see the panel on the left hand side of the screen.
Can someone ...
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How to install a tar.bz2-Blender-file manually for Linux?
Because I have a fatal problem with face selection in Blender and tried to install different Blender versions on different Linux versions without success, I was told to try to download Blender ...
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Blender quit showing the words when I open it
I have Blender on my Acer Aspire One laptop and I have only been using it for almost 2 weeks and when I open blender it won't show what anything is labeled no matter what I click. No words. Just ...
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How can I completely remove Blender from my Mac?
Rather than continue spending time on an issue I can't resolve, I want to completely wipe Blender from my computer and reinstall it as if I'm installing it for the first time.
Steps I tried:
I ...
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How to install the latest version of Blender
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?
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Update and add-on problem
I have Blender 2.73 and want to update to 2.75 but when I do it does not unzip correctly or completely, and it does not show up in my control panel where the installed programs show up. Also I want to ...
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How to install LDR-Importer Add-on?
I'd like to install LDR-Importer in order to import LDraw .dat and .ldr models into Blender. Unfortunately the script comes with no installation documentation. Where should I unpack the github archive?...
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Does Blender work in Windows 10?
Windows upgraded itself (from 8.1) without uninstalling Blender, but Blender wouldn't correctly work after this (look at the error message below).
Video won't show.
Does Blender work with Windows ...
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Best way to clean Blender?
Blender recently started to act really weird, one of the most frustrating things is that Blender History states stopped working. I am looking for some advice on how to clean things that might be ...
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How can I install a script into blender? [duplicate]
I want to install this extension to my blender to get materials to save from blender render to cycles render. Anyways when I clicked on the installation link this is what appeared(picture). How do I ...
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I have no icon to click on to open blender just the install wizard under downloads
I only have the install wizard after finishing install. There is nothing to click on to open blender. I have installed 64 and 32.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of obtaining Blender?
Blender can be downloaded as an installer file, a zipped directory, or from Steam, among other places. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods of obtaining Blender?
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Does installing/running Blender tamper in any way with my system/settings or install additional software/required components?
My question is, does using Blender (since it doesn't require an installation as far as I understand) tamper in any way with my system, install additional/required/third party software or make any long ...
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how can I download Blender 2.75 RC for mac? [closed]
I am a Mac user and I am trying to download the latest version of blender that is out, which is Blender 2.75 RC which can be downloaded here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2....
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Blender 2.74 Windows 64bit quits and displays hz issue
Here is the message that gets displayed:
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How to download to england [closed]
when i go to install blender (https://www.blender.org/download/) ( scroll to the bottom) it doesn't give me and option to download for England.
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Where are the Blender program files in Ubuntu 14.04?
Can anyone tell me where the .blender directory is in Ubuntu 14.04?
I cannot find the .blender directory in my Ubuntu 14.04 system.
I need to know this location so I can put the MakeHuman add on sub-...
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If you install Blender while there is an existing copy, does it uninstall the existing copy?
I'm installing Blender 2.74 but there is a copy of Blender 2.73a on my computer. Does the installer uninstall Blender 2.73a?
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How well does Blender handle multiple instalations side by side?
I have Blender (latest stable version) installed on my workstation. I want to install the nightly build so that I can have the stereo 3D features for a project that I am working on.
Are there any ...
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Startup file not found in config folder [duplicate]
I am looking for startup.blend file on linux debian. As explained http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Installing_Blender/DirectoryLayout, it should be under config folder. ...
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Missing msvcr120.dll during installation
I'm new to Blender and having trouble installing it.
It looks like I'm missing "MSVCR120.dll". I've looked on the Blender site and found only closed jobs for this error. I saw that in the .zip file ...
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Unable to install cube surfer addon by PyroEvil [duplicate]
This is the error message I get every time I try to enable the cube surfer addon:
What am I doing wrong?
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blender doesn't open when amd gpu driver is installed [closed]
I know that Blender doesn't support AMD GPU's, but this isn't about that.
Blender was working just fine, but after I installed Catalyst, Blender won't open. Why?
My PC info:
Win7
Intel i7 3rd gen
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Where is the startup file stored?
I need to reinstall Blender but I want to backup my startup file first. Where is this data stored?
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32 bit iMac, will 64 bit run properly?
I am ready to download Blender. I have and older iMac, 20", 32 bit. It has memory upgrade to 4GB and the latest Yosemite. I only see the option for 64bit for download. Is there still a 32 bit or does ...
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Black window flashes then disappears when I start Blender 2.72 [duplicate]
I've been looking for a solution to my problem for a few days without finding it, so I'm posting my question here hoping I'm in the right place.
I had Blender 2.68 working very well, and I wanted to ...
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Shared Network install / config priority
I'd like to deploy Blender with a custom startup scene and some enabled addons on a network drive, so that every user here can run Blender from there with all the settings and addons.
Sounds easy ...
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Can't get blender to work on Ubuntu - when it opens I don't see the default scene
I have recently installed Blender on Ubuntu. I have tried both installing v 2.72 by downloading the tar from the website and 2.62 installed using apt-get.
In both cases when I open Blender I do not ...
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Constant repeating errors in console
Was just about to start learning Python in Blender, turned on the console and found the following message being constantly printed:
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My Blender has no Header
When I opened Blender after installing them, I felt that something was wrong.
then I realized that the awkwardness came from how "empty" it was(See the picture below).
Does anyone know how to fix it ...
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Blender has stopped working: Crash on startup [closed]
I used Blender version 2.68a last year. I wanted to start using it again, but now whenever I start Blender it simply crashes immediately with the message, "Blender has stopped working". I've tried ...
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How do you update blender on Mac OS without losing preferences? [duplicate]
This feels a little like the elephant in the room no one is talking about. One of the most excellent things about Blender is that it is updated so frequently. The downside is moving preferences around ...
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Where are the instructions for installing the 2.71 Release Candidate?
I've downloaded the Zip file for Windows 64Bit and unpacked it and now have a folder with 226Mb of files that includes a Blender.exe.
I however, couldn't find any installation instructions either in ...
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Menus without background and user pref have parts missing [closed]
In blender version 2.69 and 2.70 and 2.70a the menus have no background and I can't find out why.
This is most likely system-problem; not a direct Blender3D issue because this error happened when I ...
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Need guidance for creating no dependancies between two installs of Blender
I want to have two copies of Blender on my machine that share no settings or preferences. One will be my development copy and the second on is the production version. I need them to be separate ...
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How to compile Blender from source on OSX? [closed]
As it says on the can, How to compile Blender from source on OSX?
Jens Werwiebe from #blendercoders on the IRC channel kindly took me through the process, so I will post it up while it is still fresh ...
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How to install numpy for blender-python (OSX)
I've been googling for this, and I can't find a definitive answer.
Here are of the options I can find:
https://plus.google.com/106742462387083223310/posts/696yEuzhf2b
which suggests: 'sudo python3....
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Install latest Blender to Debian [closed]
I don't know how/where to put the files for Blender. From the repositories the only version available is 2.63, but I want 2.69 of Blender. Downloading the files straight from blender.org gives me an ...
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Visual C++ Runtime Error 2.69 Startup (Fresh Installation)
I keep getting a visual C++ runtime error while starting up a fresh install of blender.... The following is a list of tasks that I have performed to try and fix the problem.
Uninstalling and ...
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Python Commands from Terminal Aren't Working Ubuntu 13.10
I'm fairly sure I'm doing something wrong and this isn't a bug, but when I installed blender from the 'blender' repository and have 2.66a running in an Ubuntu 13.10 VM, I got problems with using ...
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