How To Install Blender on Linux Mint 21

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Blender on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline, from modeling and rigging to animation and rendering. It’s available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Thanks to OpenGL, Blender is capable of offering a consistent experience.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a Blender 3D computer graphics software tool on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Blender on Linux Mint 21 Vanessa

Step 1. Before running the tutorial below, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget ca-certificates gnupg2

Step 2. Installing Blender on Linux Mint 21.

By default, Blender is not available on the Linux Mint 21 base repository. Now run the following command below to add Blender PPA to your Linux Mint system:

echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/blender/ubuntu/ jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/blender-rob-savoury.list
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/ffmpeg4/ubuntu jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ffmpeg-4-rob-savoury.list
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/ffmpeg5/ubuntu jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ffmpeg-5-rob-savoury.list
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/multimedia/ubuntu jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multimedia-rob-savoury.list
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/graphics/ubuntu jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-rob-savoury.list

Next, import the GPG key using the following command:

sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/rob-savoury.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E996735927E427A733BB653E374C7797FB006459

After that, update your system and you can install Blender on it with the help of the command shown below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install blender

Step 3. Accessing Blender on Linux Mint 21.

Once we finish with the installation, we will find Blender in the Mint menu, in the Graphics section or you can launch it through the terminal with the help of the command shown below:

blender

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Blender. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the latest version of Blender 3D creation software on the Linux Mint system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Blender website.