Ubuntu Tweak

Introduction

Provide Blender 2.4 and 2.5 packages which can be installed simultaneously. Some third-party patches are applied to Blender 2.5.

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Be careful, this PPA also provides Python 3.2 packages for Maverick, because Blender 2.5 supports only Python 3.2 since r35386.

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'blender' source package provides:

- blender ... symbolic links to Blender 2.4 binaries
- blender2.4 ... actual binaries

'blender2.5' source package provides:

- blender ... symbolic links to Blender 2.5 binaries
- blender-gnome-support ... meta package to install blender2.5-gnome-support
- blender2.5 ... binaries including OpenCOLLADA r836 and some patches (See below)
- blender2.5-gnome-support ... configuration for Nautilus file manager

Patches for blender2.5:

- DynamicPaint v1.18e (http://www.miikahweb.com/en/blenderbuilds)
- Planet texture (http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-planet-texture-patch/)

Note that the executables are renamed to avoid conflicts between 2.4 and 2.5 as follows:

Blender 2.4:

/usr/bin/blender => /usr/bin/blender2.4
/usr/bin/blenderplayer => /usr/bin/blenderplayer.blender2.4

Blender 2.5:

/usr/bin/blender => /usr/bin/blender2.5
/usr/bin/blenderplayer => /usr/bin/blenderplayer.blender2.5
/usr/bin/makesrna => /usr/bin/makesrna.blender2.5
/usr/bin/makesdna => /usr/bin/makesdna.blender2.5
/usr/bin/blender-thumbnailer.py => /usr/bin/blender2.5-thumbnailer.py

Credit

This PPA is created and maintained by IRIE Shinsuke.

UTCOM syncs the data from the original link regularly: https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/blender.

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact IRIE Shinsuke.