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Tell me your working blender version and distro

by Charles B · in Artist Corner · 12/12/2005 (3:38 pm) · 3 replies

I just want to run blender... but it doesn't work on mandrake 9.2 with python 2.3

If you have a working blender on a free linux distro and the exporter works, and you DID NOT HAVE to build blender or python, can you give me your version #s so I can install that in my spare logical partitions.

what version of blender, what version of your distribution.

If you have to emerge or yum or apt-get, that's not what I'm asking for.

I want a version that I can burn to a disc(s) - throw in a shoe box and when i need blender to work taday(c)(software patent pending), it will work.

If you're using bsd - I'm willing to try it - so let me know.
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Torque Owner Jeffrey Bakker
#1
12/12/2005 (4:18 pm)
I'm using gentoo Linux, version...well let's just say it's up to date with at least 2005 Q3. I have python 2.4.2 and Blender 2.36, both working just fine. Of course I had to BUILD them, as you have to build everything in gentoo, but unlike many other distros building doesn't have to be a pain and is almost completely automated. Getting Blender on the machine was no hassle at all. Just type 'emerge blender' (as su), and it downloads, patches, compiles and installs automagically, as well as its dependencies.

Of course it typically takes 3 days to get Gentoo up and installed from a stage 1 or 2 install, you can probably do a stage 3 install (although almost defeating the purpose of a "build it yourself" distro) and have gentoo running with Blender today.

I've used FreeBSD, and I can tell you it's a lot like slackware (although a totally different kernel and minus the GNU tools as standard), but with the basic install it is very similar to gentoo. The gentoo portage system is based on the BSD ports tree, which is probably the same way you'd get Blender installed in FreeBSD.


Edit:
I don't have the DTS exporter installed on my Linux machine, and I think the exporter doesn't work with python 2.4, but the Blender system info says it's using python 2.3.5, which I think is installed as a dependency and should work alongside with python 2.4 on the same system. In short, the DTS exporter should work as long as it's installed properly.

Torque Owner Demolishun
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#2
12/12/2005 (9:01 pm)
Blender - 2.37a
Python - 2.3
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Torque Owner Vincent BILLET
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#3
12/14/2005 (5:47 am)
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