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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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Accessing C pointers to vertices in Blender's Python API

I'm currently making a render engine in C and C++ for Blender. I want to access the vertices of a mesh from C via a pointer, to reduce the time spent in Python and avoid unneeded data duplication. I ...
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How to change window size from script?

I'm trying to set my window to full screen/maximised mode How do I achieve this via script? I tried this answer but it's obviously for windows operating system whereas I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
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I get an error when I launch Blender

I have installed compressed package from website, but when I executed the code ./blender from Ubuntu on a cloud server, ref error occurs. ...
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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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Segmentation fault (core dumped) on closest_point_on_mesh call in Ubuntu [closed]

I triangulate an object and then call obj.closest_point_on_mesh call(). The call doesn't finish and my blender crashes. This happens only in Ubuntu, I also tried my ...
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Do "make install" on different Linux sytem than the one used for "make bpy"

I have successfully built Blender-2.80-Beta as bpy (as in make bpy) for linux in Ubuntu 18. Also when i do make install on the ...
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Resource for Blender-2.80 python-module for Linux

While i successfully built the blender-2.80 python module on Windows (without changing anything), i have great difficulty building it for linux (at least in Ubuntu). Is there anywhere where i can ...
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blender script startup fail

I wrote an exporter script and put the files into ~/.config/blender/x.xx/scripts/addons/export However, when I check the User Preferences I cannot find my script ...
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Shell script problem

In my python script in my .blend file, I run a shell script but the script doesn't work properly when calling it from blender using ...
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No cycles engine in opensuse?

I am using opensuse 13.1, and blnder 2.67b. In my blender there is no cycles renderer. I tried in the preference to enable it but it says that the cycles script is missing. How do i install the cycles ...
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How to stop Blender from making the CPU overheat?

Apparently my CPU or GPU overheats when Blender renders more than a few minutes. The computer suddenly powers down, taking down all running apps, email I'm writing, etc. This is almost never a ...
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