Blender: Download and Install

by Jonathan Williamson

Something we realized is though there are plenty of amazing video blender tutorials all over our site, there wasn’t a clearly defined starting point. As with anything there has to be a beginning or an initial handshake of “Hey, nice to meet you” to really get started on the right foot.

This is why we have created this dedicated “Getting Started with Blender” page to help break the ice and get introductions out of the way.

In this video we will cover where to download and how to install to your local machine.

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38 Responses to “Blender: Download and Install”
  1. Liselle
    Posts: 1

    I have been through all the tutorials … I cannot seem to find one that helps in importing sketchup 8 files (even if saved as a .dae) Also cant find where to change the units from imperial to metric?

    When I import my sketchup file as a .dae it says it is there but I cant see it. Is it a layer setting? What am I doing wrong?

    Please help, this looks so exciting and I am itching to get some renderings going …

    Thanks.

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     Sep 9, 2011 at 9:47 am
  2. Sneyder
    Posts: 1

    I have downloaded the file to install blender in Fedora 15, but it doesn’t install the program. The only thing I can do is to open blender and to work with it like a virtual program. It is not within my system and it doesn’t appear in my applications. Why? What do I need to do to install it?

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     Sep 23, 2011 at 10:54 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Hi Sneyder, the linux version is a stand-alone and so does not include the installer. If you wish to install it so as to automatically appear in your menus and such you need to either install it via a package manager or add Blender to the menus manually. There is likely another way to do it but I’m not familiar enough with Fedora to say with confidence.

      -Jonathan

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      2.1
       Sep 23, 2011 at 11:17 am
  3. KevinB
    Posts: 1

    I do exactly as the video does, however when I get to the part where it is actually downloaded,I seem to be getting different folder choices than what is shown in the video. I’m assuming because your downloading an earlier version of Blender, however when I go down the folder choices, there’s only one to start, I can not find Blender.exe I think I have found it, however when I click on it it asks me to extract the file and put it on my hard drive. I have done that and still when I try and open it, it gives me a black box with white text similar to command prompt. The text says file not found. Any ideas what I could do or if I”m doing anything wrong?

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     Oct 12, 2011 at 7:37 pm
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Hi Kevin,

      Are you able to send me a screenshot of the error when you try to open the Blender.exe?

      -Jonathan

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      3.1
       Oct 13, 2011 at 9:10 am
      • ankit verma
        Posts: 1

        Hello Kelvin
        I am new to Blender. From where i can get video tutorials from basic to advance.
        please can u help??

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        3.1.1
         Dec 19, 2012 at 1:30 am
  4. Joseph Dixon
    Posts: 1

    How do I get picture image into into Blender to animate for making movie?

    I do not know how to start blender making animation movie.

    Joseph Dixon

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     Oct 21, 2011 at 12:01 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Hi Joseph,

      If you’re trying to animate a TV screen or something like, then you can load the movie file or image sequence as a Image Texture and then set the frames accordingly in the Texture settings.

      -Jonathan

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      4.1
       Oct 21, 2011 at 9:34 am
      • jawadhassan
        Posts: 3

        when i opened blender it says
        “the application failed to initialize properly (0x0c0150002).click on ok to terminate application”
        need help!!!

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        4.1.1
         Jun 20, 2012 at 12:48 pm
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2949

        Hi there,

        Which operating system are you using?

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         Jun 20, 2012 at 12:49 pm
      • jawadhassan
        Posts: 3

        i got the solution by one of your expert that is it requires “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package”

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        4.1.2
         Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 pm
  5. myron
    Posts: 3

    jonathan,im a beginer just down loaded the software on my computer. look at first vid it say down load alpha 2.5 o zip to your right i dont see it!
    is it already loaded when i load the software?? i’ve played the vid 4 times still dont see alpha 2.5

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     Oct 23, 2011 at 2:42 am
  6. myron
    Posts: 3

    software i have from CD EARTH… cant believe im stuck on first tutorial video looking for alpha 2.5 lol

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     Oct 23, 2011 at 2:52 am
  7. myron
    Posts: 3

    oops, sorry i have alpha 2.5

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     Oct 23, 2011 at 2:59 am
  8. kris
    Posts: 1

    i’m a newbie too. downloaded the blender-2.58-linux-glib27-x86_64 compressed version for my mint11 os. after download, i open the folder, but the the blender app file type is indicated as ‘unknown’. what do i need to do for the app to be recognized as an executable file?

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     Oct 27, 2011 at 11:38 am
  9. Lefti97
    Posts: 2

    hello everyone

    im 14 years old, ive never used graphics programms in my life before and i really want to learn this programm but this programm seems very complicated for me is there some other programms(free) like blender so i can start using them first so i can learn a few things about graphics programms before i start using blender?
    ((sorry for my english im from greece))

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     Nov 7, 2011 at 10:33 am
  10. Halogen
    Posts: 1

    @ Lefti97, uhm you could try Google sketchup, very easy to learn. Once you get the hang of Sketchup come back to blender, however it probably will still have a steep learning curve.

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     Nov 8, 2011 at 10:53 am
  11. Lu
    Posts: 1

    This tutorial is really really helpful, thank you so much

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     Nov 18, 2011 at 12:11 pm
  12. or
    Posts: 1

    i have downloded blender 2.6 ther was no 2.5/ in the arcive file i could not find a start boten/ and evry file i opened it did not recocnized the file/

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     Jan 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
  13. Bmilez
    Posts: 1

    Hey guys, can you help me out? I need to know which download link to click on for Blender 2.61 for Mac OS X 10.6.8.

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     Feb 11, 2012 at 1:42 pm
  14. ras
    Posts: 1

    hey guys im highly interested in learning blender!if there is any1 who has simple learnin techniques,can u share them wth me plz!

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     Mar 12, 2012 at 12:48 pm
  15. Isabella Jackson
    Posts: 1

    Hello I am new to blender and i need some serious help every time i try to use blender on my windows 7 laptop it gives me this : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.

    please help

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     Apr 29, 2012 at 4:55 am
    • mski
      Posts: 1

      Hello,

      Newbie here. Downloaded Blender 2.63 for Mac powerpc version. Unzipped folder in app folder area. When i double click to open blender nothing happens. what am I doing wrong or 2.63 cannot run on this syste? MAC OSX 10.4.11. please help. Anxious o start paqlying.

      Thanks
      M

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      15.1
       Apr 30, 2012 at 10:20 am
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2949

        Hi M,

        I may be mistaken, but I don’t believe Blender runs on anything older than 10.5. On the download page the minimum system requirements are 10.5.

        -Jonathan

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        15.1.1
         Apr 30, 2012 at 10:29 am
  16. zeriice
    Posts: 1

    pls help me, im new to blender and i just got unstalled blender 2.63, the problem is whenever i open blender, it says “application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)” i have downloaded the right version for my pc which is the 32- bit. i dont know how to fix it.

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     Jun 18, 2012 at 10:01 am
    • jawadhassan
      Posts: 3

      i faced the same problem and i installed following thing
      “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package”

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      16.1
       Jun 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm
  17. Harish
    Posts: 2

    Hi, I just downloaded blender 2.63 for my windows 64-bit. I noticed that there wasn’t all the icons in the properties menu stuff and a lot of stuff were missing. Am i doing something wrong or what?

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     Jun 27, 2012 at 8:29 pm
  18. Diablos
    Posts: 1

    I was wondering if it would be possible to load the .pmd model files from Miku-Miku Dance into Blender

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    18
     Jul 9, 2012 at 5:54 pm
  19. tiar
    Posts: 1

    my blender can’t open in may comp.
    or my computer system is wrong?
    i need solution from author
    thank’s

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     Jul 14, 2012 at 3:00 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2949

      Hi Tiar,

      Are you getting any kind of error? Also what kind of system are you using? I’ll be happy to try and help you out but need a bit more info.

      Cheers,
      Jonathan

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      19.1
       Jul 14, 2012 at 12:59 pm
  20. Marvin hutchinson
    Posts: 1

    every time i try to open blender it tells me failed to get a context

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     Aug 2, 2012 at 2:34 pm
  21. 3d
    Posts: 1

    dont download here if that not work, cmon…download from somewhere else

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     Aug 25, 2012 at 5:03 pm
  22. mayboy.hgan
    Posts: 1

    where can i download all the tutorial movie

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     Dec 8, 2012 at 4:22 am
  23. Kim Abery-Lyman
    Posts: 1

    How do I get my interface to look like the one in the tutorial? Mine is set up completely different. The one in the tutorial looks more user friendly.

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     Feb 5, 2013 at 3:54 pm
  24. Bart Willemsen
    Posts: 1

    For Linux users, there is a big change that Blender is already available in the standard software repository. Check that first before manually downloading and installing! Only thing is, it might not be the very latest version available but at least on Ubuntu 12.10 it’s still quiet recent.

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     Feb 19, 2013 at 5:44 am

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