I just downloaded the latest Blender version and it is not running when I double-click it or run it through the terminal. The only way to run the application is to call it as super user and even when it is opened I cannot install certain plugins due to the current permission configured for the executable file. Some of the purchased plugins that I tried to install crash Blender during the installation which wasn't happening before.
Here is the output from the terminal after trying to run it:
user@group:~/Downloads/blender-3.0.1-linux-x64$ ./blender
Read prefs: /path/.config/blender/3.0/config/userpref.blend
Registered MACHIN3tools 0.9.0 with 1 tool, 1 pie menu
Registered MESHmachine 0.10.0 with 2 plug libraries
• plug library: Examples
• plug library: MyPlugs
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Also, everytime I try opening the application it crashes and creates a new file in the coredump folder. Is it ok to delete them from that folder?
I'm somewhat new to Linux and don't want to mess around with the permissions myself using chmod
or chown
as I learned it the hard way when learning about chmod 777
and had to re-install Linux.
That said, how can I permanently run Blender without having to do so as super user since the plugins will not install properly without the right permission?
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
blender
in a terminal. Then edit the question and post the output between three back-ticks, to format it ascode
.sudo apt update
followed bysudo apt install blender
. Alternatively, you can also install the snap which will typically have a newer version. Just runsudo snap install blender --classic
.sudo apt update
and then runsudo apt install blender
. The maintainers work out the bugs before it's released so you don't have to deal with these crashes.