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William
Asked: 2011-11-10 14:12:28 +0800 CST

Who do I contact to get software updated in the Software Center?

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For those who are still using blender on Ubuntu 11.04, the version in the Software Center is out of date (2.49). Yes, it does make a difference, there was a major user interface change with the release of Blender 2.5. For those using Blender in Ubuntu 11.10, the version in the Software Center is also out of date(2.57). The current release of Blender is 2.60. Who can I contact go get the versions in the two Software Centers updated? Any help is much appreciated.

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  1. Best Answer

    Normally Ubuntu releases the packages with a distro release and the only updates for them are bugs or security updates, if you want to use later versions of the software you probably need to add a PPA to your list.

    This PPA supplies the latest 2.60 version for 11.10, to add it to your system use these commands

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/irie-blender

    After that use these commands to update your package list and possible packages

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

    Package blender will install 2.60 in Ubuntu 11.04, 2.49.2 in Ubuntu 11.04. For 2.50 in 11.04 install package blender2.5.

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  2. Probably not the answer you were hoping for, but I've started handling this manually myself.

    I've started downloading the Linux tar.gz files from the Blender website and extracting them to /opt, and updating a symbolic link to the latest folder.

    This way, all I have to do is point a launcher to /opt/blender/blender to launch the latest version.

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