How To Install Blender 2.77 on Ubuntu

  Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.

Blender 2.7 changelog

•      Cycles: Better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density.
•     Grease pencil stroke sculpting and improved workflow.
•     OpenVDB caching for smoke/volumetric simulations.
•     Reworked library handling to manage missing and deleted datablocks.
•     Redesigned progress bar.
•     Edit mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier.
•     Improved extruding and weight painting tools for sculpting/painting.
•     Support for Windows XP and the SCons build system was removed.
•     And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements! 

Installation instructions:The latest Blender versions are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is piece of cake. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the blender package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install blender

Optional, to remove Blender , do:

$ sudo apt-get remove blender