Install Blender 2.78 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 2.78 on Ubuntu 16.04LTS /14.04 LTS,LinuxMint 17

The latest version of Blender is 2.78 and easy to install it via PPA

Changelog

• Spherical Stereo images rendering support for VR
• Grease Pencil is now a full 2D drawing & animation tool!
• Viewport Rendering improvements
• New Freehand curves drawing over surfaces!
• Bendy Bones, powerful new options for B-Bones
• Alembic support: import/export basic operators
• Cloth Physics: new Dynamic Base Mesh and Simulation Speed option
• New Add-ons, individual preferences, Python APIs changes, and a lot of new & updated add-ons!
• Many more features, improvements and the usual huge bug-fixes list

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 2.78

sudo apt-get install blender