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I am interested in trying out the Blender 2.54 beta, but don't have the time or patience to download and install all of the dependencies for it and compile it myself.

Is there a PPA somewhere that I can use to obtain a pre-compiled package for it?

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Linked question: askubuntu.com/questions/110821/… – fossfreedom♦ Mar 7 at 13:32
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I've managed to find a PPA for version 2.53 beta:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/blender-253-beta-3d-graphics.html

Reference: How to use PPAs

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Thanks! That'll be just great. Now that Launchpad supports daily builds, maybe we'll see more of these. – George Edison Sep 23 '10 at 23:06
My only concern with using this PPA is that it updates Python 3 to Python 3.2. Not sure if this will cause more problems for other Python 3 applications. – CraigM May 21 '11 at 12:48
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You can also use https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/blender which is another alternative to the 2.5.x and the 2.4.x

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender && sudo apt-get update

For Blender 2.4.x - sudo apt-get install blender

For Blender 2.5.x - sudo apt-get install blender2.5

Only drawback is that the 2.4.x series binary file for Blender will be called blender and the one for 2.5.x will be called blender2.5. So if you want to execute the 2.5 in console you need to type blender2.5

NOTA: As David Oneill mentions, this works for 10.10 and later. Thanks David.

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That's a much better solution... that way I can have both installed. – George Edison Jan 30 '11 at 20:03
NOTE: this works only for 10.10 and later. – David Oneill Jan 3 at 20:13
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work on me : http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/04/blender-257-ppa-repository-install.html

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This offers the same information as the accepted answer. – CraigM May 21 '11 at 12:45
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