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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
This tutorial shows all the ways to install the 3D creation software Blender in Ubuntu, including Snap, Flatpak, native Deb packages, and compile from source tarball.Blender is a free open-source software for creating animated films, visual effects, computer games. It’s available to install in Ubuntu via a few different package formats. Here you may choose the one that you prefer.1. Blender Snap package:The software developer team offers official snap package that works on Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions. Snap is an universal Linux package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.The Snap package features:Easy to install.Auto update.Maintained by Blender Foundation.Works on 64-bit modern PC only.Run in box with snapd daemon, though pre-installed out-of-the-box.Take more disk space than native deb package.Install Blender Snap package:The package is easy to install as mentioned. Simply open Ubuntu Software, search for and install Blender. From both package details and header bar, it’s marked as Snap package.2. Blender in Ubuntu Universe repository:Ubuntu has the 3D creation software in its official repositories. Though it’s always old, it has multi-arch support!stock Blender package features:Easy to install.Official package by Ubuntu, but no update anymore.Works on 64-bit PC, arm64 (Apple Silicon, Raspberry Pi), armhf, ppc64el, and s390x processors.The stock deb package is also available to install in Ubuntu Software, though it sucks and may not work! Instead, users may open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, and run apt command instead:sudo apt update && sudo apt install blenderAnd to uninstall the package, use sudo apt remove --autoremove blender command in terminal.3. Blender Flatpak package:Flatpak is another universal Linux package format that was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project. Blender is available as Flatpak package in the flathub repository.The Flatpak package features:Auto update.Maintained by the community.64-bit modern PC only.Run in box with flatpak daemon.Take more disk space than native deb package.Install Blender Flatpak package:To install the package, open terminal either by searching from activities overview screen or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When terminal opens, run following commands one by one.Run command to install flatpak daemon:sudo apt install flatpakAdd the flathub repository:flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepoFinally install Blender via command:flatpak install flathub org.blender.BlenderAnd it can be easily removed via flatpak uninstall org.blender.Blender command.4. Blender Portable Linux Tarball:The Blender website provides Linux Tarball in its download page. Just grab the package, extract in your file manager, and right-click run the executable file from generated folder will launch the program.No installation required, but only works for Linux on 64-bit modern desktop PC and laptop.5. Install Blender from Ubuntu PPA:Some Ubuntu users do NOT like the Snap and Flatpak packages. Besides portable Linux tarball, third-party PPAs is one of the choices.The PPA package features:Native deb packges.Able to upgrade through “Software Updater”.Maintained by unofficial third-parties.Blender PPAs:There are quite a few Ubuntu PPAs contains the 3D creation software package. You can find them in THIS PAGE.So far, the Rob Savoury’s PPA contains the most recent Blender 2.93.4 (check the link) packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and higher for 64-bit PC.
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