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Are there any plans to integrate Blender 2.64 into the Ubuntu repository?

Asked by daniel mejia

On October 4 of 2012 Blender 2.64 was released, this is about 2 weeks before the release of Ubuntu 12.10, I was wondering if this new Version of Blender can possibly make it to Quantal, and possibly fixing the Cycles, and Collada export/import issues that the current package of Blender on Quantal has.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

Two weeks is not very long to test and repackage.

According to the Quantal package list the version that will be in the repositories is 2.63a-1ubuntu1

You can file a bug against blender here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender

 requesting the update. Add some detail of what has changed together with why you think it should be upgraded.

It will be considered but I suspect it will not be seen as the highest priority.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You could comple it yourself, or see if one of the PPA maintainers has any intention of packaging it

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daniel mejia (damvforever) said : 		#3

I don't know much about compiling, but i do know that there this PPA (https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/blender) where there is usually the most recent version of Blender, however for some reason it's not available for Quantal (I imagine I failed to compile or build). and as for the reasons I would like to see the newer version on the repository is because or 2 issues that are affecting me (or will affect me once i upgrade my production machine to Quantal when is released).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender/+bug/1058777
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender/+bug/999024

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#4

There is a package for quantal and precise (Version 2.64) at the link you gave

https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/blender

both were uploaded yesterday. Note: This is not an official repository so you have to decide if you wish to trust it or not.

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Melvin Guerrero (melvin-guerrero) said : 		#5

I installed the new version of Blender (2.64.2) on Ubuntu 12.04. This is what I did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

I hope this can help you.

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