Anyone else having trouble getting Blender up and running?
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Hi,
I've been meaning to get back into Blender however I'm unable to boot it up in the latest Trisquel for some reason. I've tried installing it both from 'Add/Remove Applications' GUI front-end and the terminal but to no avail, unfortunately.
This is quite important since have some work to do, but I wouldn't no where to begin looking for the problem, let alone fixing it somehow.
Can anyone please help me?
Anything would be very much appreciated
Thank you
By latest Trisquel you mean Trisquel 10? I was able to get it to install and Blender opens on Trisquel 10.
Yep, Trisquel 10.
I have no idea why it's not starting. Maybe I'm just seriously unlucky? :(
I've tried looking for the file to execute the program but was unable to find it. I was hoping that I could try running it from the terminal.
I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find it's directory?
"Hi,
I've been meaning to get back into Blender however I'm unable to boot it up in the latest Trisquel for some reason. I've tried installing it both from 'Add/Remove Applications' GUI front-end and the terminal but to no avail, unfortunately.
This is quite important since have some work to do, but I wouldn't no where to begin looking for the problem, let alone fixing it somehow.
Can anyone please help me?
Anything would be very much appreciated
Thank you"
I don't use Blender but I just installed it from the Add/Remove programs option in Trisquel 10 and it launched after without issue. When you tried using Terminal was there any error message listed ? If so, any chance you could take a screenshot and post it here ?
AMD FX-8350 | 16GB DDR3-1600 | Asus GTX 780 Ti| Mesa 21.2.6 | Trisquel 10.0.1 | Mate 1.24.0 | Kernel 5.19.5-GNU
Okay, I tried running it through the terminal and got this:
"Error! Unsupported graphics card or driver.
A graphics card and driver with support for OpenGL 3.3 or higher is required.
The program will now close."
The latest OpenGL that my graphics card can use is Version 2.1.
I had done my research and used this command to run it through 3D emulation and got this:
SomeUser@SomeDevice:~$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 blender file.blend
"
Warning: property 'release_confirm' not found in keymap item 'OperatorProperties'
Error: Cannot read file '/home/SomeUser/file.blend': No such file or directory
... opened default scene instead; saving will write to: /home/SomeUser/file.blend
Saved session recovery to '/tmp/quit.blend'
Blender quit "
Doesn't work as well, but it's looking I'll have to depend on the older version of Blender, unless I can upgrade my OpenGL Driver, which I doubt since it's quite old.
My Graphics card is the Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset (CTG), just so you know.
El 2022-08-31 12:52, name at domain escribió:
> Okay, I tried running it through the terminal and got this:
>
> "Error! Unsupported graphics card or driver.
> A graphics card and driver with support for OpenGL 3.3 or higher is required.
> The program will now close."
>
> The latest OpenGL that my graphics card can use is Version 2.1.
>
> I had done my research and used this command to run it through 3D
> emulation and got this:
>
> SomeUser@SomeDevice:~$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 blender file.blend
>
> "
> Warning: property 'release_confirm' not found in keymap item
> 'OperatorProperties'
> Error: Cannot read file '/home/SomeUser/file.blend': No such file or directory
> ... opened default scene instead; saving will write to:
> /home/SomeUser/file.blend
> Saved session recovery to '/tmp/quit.blend'
>
> Blender quit "
>
> Doesn't work as well, but it's looking I'll have to depend on the
> older version of Blender, unless I can upgrade my OpenGL Driver, which
> I doubt since it's quite old.
>
> My Graphics card is an Intel GM45 Express using the i915 driver, just
> so you know.
That is a great wealth of information. Have you updated and upgraded
the packages in the distribution? Perhaps it will correct the problems
after restart. It might take a long time. But be patient!
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Yes, I have updated and upgraded but the problem roots back to my graphics card not able to accept OpenGL drivers higher than 2.1.
I have provided my own solution below using an earlier version of blender that runs on OpenGL 2.1, plus setting everything up with paths to the right icons, appearing in the start menu + category etc.
I also provided a way to prevent the said app from updating/upgrading when using 'sudo apt update/upgrading' or else it would fall into the same problems as if I were to install/use the latest Blender app available.
Alright, I can get 2.79b up and running without a problem and it's working perfectly without issue.
Setting everything up from the startup menu, category etc was a little sloppy and slow but it's been a learning experience.
Still sucks that I can't use the latest version but way better than nothing.
For any else looking at this, you can follow this guide here:
https://dev.to/arbitrary/how-to-install-tarball-tar-files-in-linux-33aa
You'll need to replace 'waterfox' with 'blender' or course and you will need to copy the file 'blender.desktop' into the specified folder then edit it with nano and writing the right paths to locations of the icons and executables before using chmodding it.
Also, you should hold onto that software version and prevent it from updating, or you end up right back to the same problem exactly where you began again, by using this command:
sudo apt-mark hold blender (use 'unhold' to allow updating the specified app, and use showhold to show every app version that you've been holding onto)
For more info, following the hyperlink below:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package
Hope this helps other users like me who can't use the latest OpenGL drivers for their graphics card.
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