Install Blender 2.77 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint Via PPA

Blender is an Free and open source application for 3D  Computer graphics software product used mainly for creating animated films,Visual...

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 2.77 on Ubuntu 15.10/ 14.04LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint 17 / 16 

The latest version of Blender is 2.77 released and now it is available in PPA,so installation procedure is very easy

Changes in version 2.77

• 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 steps

Step 1: Add the Official PPA Provided by Blender Team

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender

Step 2:Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install Blender 2.77

sudo apt-get install blender