Probably you are talking about where Blender saves/loads user files. That paths are different from application's installation directories. Blender from repos doesn't install in /home
directory. It has its main executable in /usr/bin
and most of its required files in /usr/share/blender
.
You might want to check this: File
-> User Preferences
Anyway if you want to use the version from http://www.blender.org/ and not from Ubuntu repos just extract archive contents to any folder/drive you like and launch blender's main executable blender
. If it doesn't work open a Terminal and cd
to the folder where you extracted the archive then:
sudo chmod +x ./blender
./blender
Linux is not Windows. The so called root
partition is Linux's main filesystem and any other partitions are mounted in folders that are in the root
drive. No C, D, E... drives. Just one big filesystem where you can add contents from other partitions/disk drives/USB drives by mounting them to any folder you wish. If blend files from windows
refers to Blender's setup file for Windows, then you should know it's useless on any Linux.
sudo apt-get install blender
in Terminal.