Install Blender 2.73 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Blender is an Free and open source application for 3D  Computer graphics software product used mainly for creating animated films,Visual effects,art,3D Printing Models,Video games and many more.

Blender contains the following features sculpting,3D Modeling,animation,camera tracking, Rendering, Video editing,compositing and many more..It is available for multiple operating systems (ie) Windows,Linux and MacOSX.

In this tutorial I will show you how to install BLENDER 2.73 on Ubuntu 14.10/ 14.04LTS /12.04 LTS,LinuxMint 15 / 14 & ElementaryOS

The latest version of Blender is 2.73 released and now it is available in PPA,so installation procedure is very easy

Installation steps

Step 1: Add the Official PPA Provided by Blender Team

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender

Step 2:Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install Blender 2.73

sudo apt-get install blender