How to upgrade to Blender 3 on Linux – Easy Steps

Blender 3.0 is here! With it 3.0 comes with many great new features and performance improvements. If you are an avid Blender user, you will want to get this latest update. Here’s how you can update Blender to 3.0.

Ubuntu Instructions

If you want to upgrade to Blender 3 on Ubuntu Linux, you need to install Blender via the downloadable TarXZ file. To get the latest version of Blender for Ubuntu, you need to open a terminal window.

To open a terminal window on the Ubuntu desktop, press Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or search for “Terminal” in the application menu and run it that way. Once the terminal window opens, use the wget download command to grab Blender 3.0.

wget https://mirror.clarkson.edu/blender/release/Blender3.0/blender-3.0.0-linux-x64.tar.xz

After downloading the TarXZ file to your computer, you need to extract its contents. Using the tar command, unzip the Blender 3.0 TarXZ file you downloaded using wget earlier.

tar xvf blender-3.0.0-linux-x64.tar.xz

When extracting the contents of the TarXZ file, a folder named “blender-3.0.0-linux-x64” will appear in your home directory. Using the CD command, move to this folder.

cd blender-3.0.0-linux-x64

Inside this folder, you will be able to launch Blender right away using the command below.

./blender

Alternatively, open the Ubuntu file manager and double-click the “blender” file to start it.

If you prefer to configure Blender globally on your Ubuntu system, modify the blender.desktop file in the folder. However, this should not be necessary as the program is easily run via command.

Debian Instructions

Debian Linux is a stable Linux operating system. However, since it focuses on being stable, some packages are out of date. As a result, Blender will not update to 3.0 anytime soon.

Fortunately, if you are using Debian, you can still get your hands on Blender 3.0 by following the Ubuntu Linux instructions above. Alternatively, you can get Blender 3.0 on Debian by installing it as a Flatpak or Snap package.

Arch Linux Instructions

Arch Linux always gets the latest packages as this is known as a rolling release distribution. The latest version of Blender (3.0) is available to all Arch Linux users through the “community” software repository.

To get Blender 3.0 on your Arch Linux system, make sure you have the “community” repository enabled on your /etc/pacman.conf Archive. Once you do, open a terminal window on your desktop.

Use the pacman -S command to install Blender 3.0 on your Arch Linux system with the terminal window open. Alternatively, if you already have Blender installed, you can upgrade to 3.0 using the pacman-syyu command.

sudo pacman -S blender

sudo pacman -Syyu

Fedora Instructions

Fedora always has the latest packages for its users. For this reason, it will be easy to obtain Blender 3.0. To install Blender on Fedora updated to 3.0, you will need to use the dnf update command in a terminal window.

Open a terminal window on the Linux desktop by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or search for “Terminal” in the application menu and run it that way. Once the terminal window is open and ready to use, run the dnf update command below.

sudo dnf update

Running the dnf update The command will download the latest version of Blender (3.0) to your Fedora system. However, if you don’t have the latest version of Blender on your Fedora system, you can install it using the instalar dnf command below.

sudo dnf install blender

OpenSUSE Instructions

Blender 3.0 is available on OpenSUSE if you use Tumbleweed, as it is a rolling release distribution like Arch Linux. However, if you use OpenSUSE Leap, 3.0 is not that accessible.

If you are using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, you will need to open a terminal window and update your system to install the Blender updates. You can open a terminal window on the Linux desktop by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or search for “Terminal” in the application menu and run it that way.

With the terminal window open, run the zypper update command to update your OpenSUSE software repositories.

sudo zypper refresh

With the updated software repositories, you can install the latest version of Blender (3.0) on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed by running the zypper update command.

sudo zypper update

If you don’t have Blender yet, you can install it using the zypper installation command below to make it work.

sudo zypper install blender

Flatpak Instructions

Blender 3.0 is available as Flatpak. However, if you want to install it on your computer using Flatpak, you will have to configure the Flatpak runtime. To do that, follow our detailed guide on the subject.

After setting up the Flatpak runtime on your computer, use both Flatpak commands below to make the latest version of Blender (3.0) work only on your Linux computer.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak install flathub org.blender.Blender

Instant instructions

The latest version of Blender (3.0) is available from the Snap package store. In order for it to work, you will first need to configure the Snap package runtime on your computer. Configure the Snap package runtime on your system by following the guide on the subject.

After setting the runtime, you can install the latest version of Blender by running the instant installation command below.

sudo snap install blender