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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Error installing Blender game engine UPBGE
I downloaded BGE from https://upbge.org/#/download. Whenever I extract it on my desktop it shows bunch of errors and also after extraction the application won't run.
I am using Windows 10 and ...
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Blender 2.83 won't start in Mac os Catalina
Blender doesn't start and keeps jumping for about a minute and goes to not responding. I have tried reinstalling , updating my os and even installed python . It still won't open.
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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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What is the proper way to update a portable Blender installation while keeping user settings?
The Windows portable installation has (or can have) the user settings folder (named '2.77' for instance, containing all the user preferences) next to all of it's files - which is perfect for me, since ...
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Blender 3 and up won't open on m1mac monterey [closed]
Previous version worked fine.
I cannot open 3.01 or get the latest betas to open at all. The error image above appears immediately.
GHOST_ContextCGL::metallnit:newLibraryWithSource:options:error:...
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How to run an Alpha Build?
This would seem to be a dumb question since I can't find anyone asking it before....
I thought I would install an Alpha build for the first time (2.93 - on a Windows PC). I unzipped all files to a ...
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Cannot install Blender 2.93 addons on Windows. Python error
I am having trouble migrating from Blender 2.92 to 2.93. Half of my addons will not install and they are officially supported on 2.93. When I install them, I get an error when I attempt to activate ...
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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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How can I start blender 2.8 in ubuntu 18.04
I've downloaded Blender 2.8 and extracted files to a suitable folder. But when I double click on the 'Blender' program, nothing happens.
I used the same procedure with Blender 2.79b and that works ...
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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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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 ...
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Blender is not running on Nvidia gtx 1050TI
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I tried to install Blender software on my computer. I tried installing it via the .msi file downloaded from the blender site.
Installation was a success, but I was unable to run the app, ...
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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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Blender 3.4 Error: Unable to open or write bookmark file
So I am getting the following error in Blender 3.4:
Unable to open or write bookmark file "C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.4\config\bookmarks.txt"
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