Blender 2.78a released. Install Blender on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint Systems. Blender animation software for Linux Ubuntu brings many features, improvements and the usual huge bug-fixes list. An updated Blender 2.78a was released on October 26, 2016. That release has 69 important bug fixes. The update Blender 2.78b was released on February 8, 2017.
Some of the most notable changes are:
Spherical Stereo images rendering support for VR
Grease Pencil is now a full 2D drawing & animation tool!
Viewport Rendering improvements
Bendy Bones, powerful new options for B-Bones
Alembic support: import/export basic operators
The latest release brings 2.78b performance update. A 2.78a release-compatible update with important speedups, especially in Cycles and for Dependency graph. It also features several memory savings & speedups, support for CPU groups and GPU rendering: support for GTX NVIDIA 10×0, improved support for GTX 980 Ti and Titan X, memory improvements for CUDA & OpenCL.
Install Blender 2.78b
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Blender 2.78b on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender
Once installed, open the Blender app from Ubuntu Dash.
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Blender app from Ubuntu, run the commands:
Method 1
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove blender
Method 2
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
For more info, please visit https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/
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