Install Blender on Ubuntu 22.04
Blender installed from snap software store creates a read-only directory for the Python dependency, which renders it hard to integrate with custom scripting tools.
To enable Blender scripting capabilities, we need to install Blender from the official tar.xz package.
Download Blender from Official Site
Then, extract the .tar.xz file to ~/Documents/Blender
Register Blender as Application
Edit the following entries of blender.desktop
Exec=/home/tk/Documents/Blender/blender %f
Icon=/home/tk/Documents/Blender/blender.svg
And then
cp ~/Documents/Blender/blender.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
# alternatively, cp ~/Documents/Blender/blender.desktop /usr/share/applications
To create a synlink, do
sudo ln -s ~/Documents/Blender/blender /usr/local/bin/blender
Create File Association
Edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
, add the following line
application/x-blender=blender.desktop
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