Questions tagged [installation]
Questions regarding installation of Blender should use this tag. Also, use the respective operating system tag: windows, mac, or linux.
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How to install previous version of the blender preference to the new blender 4.2 version?
How can I install the previous version's preferences like add-ons, themes and settings into the new version? The problem is that I've already uninstalled the earlier version of Blender(which I had ...
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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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Addons installation failure
I installed an addon of simply cloth pro, but when I come to mark it in the window of the addons, it says to me that there is an error.
Attached is a picture of what they write to me.
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How to uninstall blender
From the control panel, I click on Blender and right-click to uninstall.
Getting this pop-up
How to uninstall old version 2.79 complete blender version from pc.
Any suggestion or help. Im using win7.
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Human Base Mesh Installation
I have finished installing Blender 3.6 and have eagerly awaited the human base meshes for this software, but I do not know how to install the meshes as assets. I am capable of opening the meshes but ...
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Help re-installing Add-Ons, and how to approach “Missing script files”
I have to reinstall all my addons and I'm encountering an issue with “Missing script files.”
I run Blender in a “portable set-up”, with different versions sharing a joint parent “config” folder. ...
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Is there a documentation of Blender's installer's command line arguments?
I only found documentation of CLI for Blender itself. What about the installer? I can't find any sort of info anywhere, I also asked few times in the support chat with no reply.
Why do I need it? Main ...
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Are addons generally considered safe to download and install?
Are addons considered safe to download? I mean, it seems that anyone can make their own addon. Who's to say if they're safe or not?
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Blender 3.4.0 Startup Error in Mac OS High Sierra
I just installed Blender 3.4 on my ancient late-2011 iMac, as 3.4 is supposed to be the latest version that will run on my machine. When I try to run it, I get the following error message,
My iMac is ...
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Blender 3.5 Unsupported graphics card
Having issues both with Meshmixer and Blender failing on launch, Blender gives me an error regarding a graphics card and drivers not able to support OpenGL 3.3.
Currently running a radeon 6600 XT with ...
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Blender 3.5 Unsupportyed graphics card [duplicate]
Having issues both with meshmixer and blender failing on launch, blender gives me an error regarding a graphics card and drivers not able to support OpenGL 3.3
Currently running a radeon 6600 XT with ...
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How to set up Blender on a Windows Server?
How to set up Blender on a server to run Crowd Render for myself and the two other Blender users in my office?
We asked IT about creating a render farm with some spare PCs we have around, but they ...
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Uninstalling Blender previous versions
I would like to uninstall many of the previous versions of Blender to free up some space.
When I go to the control panel to uninstall I cannot distinguish between the versions.
Can I simply go to C:\...
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Cannot run Blender installed via snap on Ubuntu server
I installed Blender 3.4.1 on an Ubuntu 22.04 server via snap:
sudo snap install blender --classic
But when I try to run it:
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Error when Installing my addon
I was installing my blender addon when I get an error:
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traceback error keeping me from scatter 5.0
I have been sent here by the scatter guys. Attached is the error message that comes up when i try to install scatter 5. it seems that my machine is blocking some folders for install. Not sure how to ...
