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Sharing Color Management Across Blender Installations

I use the environment variables BLENDER_USER_CONFIG and BLENDER_USER_SCRIPTS so that any Blender installation on my computer ...
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Is there any way to get Blender onto a school Chromebook

I recently got into Blender. and wanted to use it more often, including when I go to school. I wanted to know if there is any way around the ChromeOS administration. If it was my own machine, I would ...
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Blender 4.1 on CPU render farm

In the studio where I work, we want to upgrade from Blender 3.5 to Blender 4.1. Installing the software itself isn't an issue, but I need to open the program to install addons like GeoScatter. The ...
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How to bring back window which starts only once after new blender version is instaled and it offers you to load previous Blender version settings?

After installing new version of Blender, I accidentally clicked away, and didn't load all my settings. Is there an easy way to start it again without reinstalling the whole Blender again?
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Installing blender on termux x11 with hardware acceleration

Is there a way to install blender on termux x11 with hardware acceleration? Anyone with experience please help.
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Blender is crashing how do I know what the problem is? [duplicate]

Blender is crashing how do I know what the problem is? Is there a error log file somewhere?
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Installing blender from file

I'm new to Ubuntu, and I want to install blender on Linux from *.tar.xz file I have downloaded from the blender.org, but I just can't make it work. If I install blender from the Repository, it works ...
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Using NumPy in Blender Add-ons Without Requiring External Installation

When developing Blender add-ons, I often find myself in need of the numpy package due to its optimized algorithms for array manipulation. However, a significant ...
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Version 4 addons missing

Had Blender 3.6 installed with all my addons enabled. Installed Blender 4 and said yes to all the defaults and none of my addons are showing in my preference.
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MAC: executable binary within addon zip loses execute permission when addon zip is installed on Blender

I have made an addon that when installed on Windows works perfectly fine. But when installed on Blender running on Mac OS, the binary contained within the addon zip file loses the execute permission. ...
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Platform unsupported

I installed Blender 4.0 and it says that my graphics card is not supported. Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 20.19.15.5126 1-21-2020 OpenGL 4.3 Build 20.19.15.5126 DirectX 11.4 How can I use blender? Does my ...
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I can't run modern versions of blender

I want to use blender to make 3D models for either roblox animations, or just use for building things, it's obvious to me that my laptop can't run the modern versions, but the older ones run fine, ...
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How to Create Desktop Shortcut Parameter When Deploying Blender 3.6.5 with MSI installer?

I'm trying to deploy Blender 3.6.5 to a bunch of PCs, and wondered if there was a switch/parameter for the installer to create a desktop shortcut. I've tried ...
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Crashing upon opening Blender, Python not intializing correctly, getting OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument for path to codecs.py

When I try to open Blender, I get an error relating to the file path for codecs.py, which upon investigating, seems to both be okay in terms of the file location, contents, and the filepath's format. ...
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Why does blender's python use system python's site_packages?

Please read carefully this is not about installing packages with Blender's python, but rather their reverse - ignoring system packages. I DO NOT WANT Blender to use the packages in ...
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