Installing Blender on a Linux Operating System

Ubuntu

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Blender-3D-on-Ubuntu

Debian 8 (Jessie)

https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/debian/jessie/blender

Installing Blender on Mac OS

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Mac

Installing Earlier Blender Versions (Windows operating system)

When attempting Blender for the first time by following a tutorial, whether it is a book, a written

tutorial or a video tutorial, always look at the Blender version for which it is written and work

through examples using that version. It is tempting to grab the latest Blender version but consider

the information given in the tutorial, as a training exercise then step up to the latest developments

in the current release (purposely repeated).

A full download listing of all Blender versions is found at: https://download.blender.org/release/

Note:The latest release of Blender is

at: https://www,blender.org/downlod/

The Earlier Release Index contains both the MSI Installer and the ZIP options. Installation as

previously described.

Running (Opening) Blender.

To run Blender, double click the shortcut icon on your desktop or navigate to the folder on your

hard drive (see over) to find the blender.exe file and double click the file.

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