Blender

A revival of Irie Shinsuke's PPA: Blender is compiled with all bells and whistles (OSL, OpenCollada, OpenVDB, OSD, jemalloc & CUDA 9 precompiled kernels) and adapted to Ubuntu (python, ffmpeg, ilmbase, openEXR, eigen3, glew, lzo,... Ubuntu packages are used directly to avoid redundancy).

If you find this PPA useful, you can offer me a coffee or a beer at

  http://goo.gl/jz21zY

Yes, in 3.3 years, 27 persons/companies did it: US$(5+10+5+5+5+5+10+5+10+3+5+4+10+5+10+10+10+4.5+4.43+4.53+5+2+10)+€(50.79+3.64+13.37+10+5). I enjoyed the drinks! (updated Nov 24, 2017).

Two (conflicting) versions of blender are provided:

- blender is the last active tag of blender git repository, with only releases or releases candidate, focusing on stability. The blender version is followed by the last commit number and hash. The contrib addons are always included.

- blender-edge lives on the edge: latest commit on the master branch. The first number is the number of commits since the beginning of blender git, followed by the commit hash.

For CUDA to work, add the blender user(s) to the 'video' group through:

  sudo adduser <user> video

It may also be useful to install the nvidia-modprobe package (which is not a dependency because it depends on your hardware).

For NumPy to work with Python 3.6 on Python 3.5 based distributions (pre-artful), please install numpy with pip.

This PPA is usually updated every Friday (except while I'm on vacations). While I try to automatize things heavily, there are often changes in Blender (or Ubuntu) that require non negligible manual intervention. If you see issues, please contact me with suggestions (but do not expect an instantaneous reaction :-)