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Can Blender addons execute Shell commands on Linux?

I'd make an addon that would use several external command line programs to process output images. Is this possible?
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How to get recent Blender version to work on Linux?

How to get latest or recent Blender (headless okay) to work on Linux ARM64? I am using Ubuntu 22.04, but I can choose from Oracle Linux (based on Red Hat), Ubuntu 22.04, AlmaLinux, or Rocky Linux, or ...
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Blender doesn't recognize --python as a command line argument

I'm running into a weird problem where running blender from the command line will run with the --background flag, but it's not recognizing the --python flag. Any thoughts? This is the output of my ...
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How can I render on SSH Linux machine?

I downloaded linux version from this official page and extracted files onto as folder. Created a very basic default cube file and uploaded it to via WinSCP as well. When I try to execute this line. <...
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What are these Errors / Warnings when running simple command line script

I followed the official documentation to run a simple script: import bpy bpy.data.objects["Cube"].data.vertices[0].co.x += 1.0 by command ...
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How Do I Install and Run Blender 2.83 on CentOS 7?

Trying to use my vps to run Blender server-side. I've tried a number of tutorials, but no success. So far... https://snapcraft.io/install/blender/centos https://wpguru.co.uk/2019/07/how-to-install-...
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Blender 2.83.0 suddenly begins crashing on startup with call to libc.8.so

Blender version 2.83.0 has been running nicely on my system for several months. Suddenly a couple of days ago, it started crashing on startup just after a call to libc.so.6. I suspected an out of ...
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Linux cmdline rendering on multiple GPUs

I'm running a number of benchmarks on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) cloud VMs that have multiple GPUs attached, however I can only ever render on a single GPU. I'm not using the standard Blender benchmark ...
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Can I specify which version of Blender to run when rendering from a command line prompt (Linux)?

I want to begin creating projects in version 2.8; however, I still have a couple created in 2.79b that still need to be wrapped up + rendered. I currently have version 2.79b on a server from which I ...
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How to start rendering (and save result) in terminal on Ubuntu?

I am getting ready, to try out cloud computing for Blender rendering, that's why I'm curious if I can just drop the .blend file and render the scene from the terminal. PS: Can Somebody tell me if I ...
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By using the CLI on Linux, can I make a running blender instance save its current scene to file?

I have a desktop machine that has been baking a physics (rigid body) simulation. I am now from another computer, and I have ssh access to the remote one. In the ...
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Render on GPU from command line on Ubuntu server

For best render performance and more free VRAM I installed Blender on an Ubuntu server without GUI. I launched Blender from the command line using argument and all was OK, but after installing it ...
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Find missing file via commandline

The problem is simple. I created some compositing projects with many input files from different places distributed on the hard disk. I want to render the final projects on another pc, but don't want ...
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Blender player lauched by command line

I am looking for a list of arguments that is possible to give to blenderplayer by command line on linux. I need to open a blender file with blenderplayer in a specific scene. I cannot find anywhere!
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Is it possible to quit blender from the command line?

Is there a way to quit blender from the command line? I tried killall -s QUIT blender However, blender does not quit the same way as it does when pressing ...
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