Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi galls and guys,
I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
blog post:
http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-...

I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
instructions.

Also if there are some Blender artists in Fedora design team please
test if all Blender functions work correctly.

I saw some Blender 2.56 packages in Koji for F15, does anybody know if
Blender 2.56 will ship with Fedora 15?

I talked with few Blender artists that I know and asked them which
version of Blender they used. They all replied that they used 2.56 and
not 2.49. They all claim that Blender 2.56 is rock solid on both OSX
and Windows, I don't know Blender artists that use Linux :(

So if Blender 2.56 turns out to be stable could it be made to replace
aging 2.45 in Fedora 14 and 15?

Cheers,
Valent.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 01/26/2011 05:33 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> I saw some Blender 2.56 packages in Koji for F15, does anybody know if
> Blender 2.56 will ship with Fedora 15?

Whatever is in Koji will usually end up in the appropriate release.
> So if Blender 2.56 turns out to be stable could it be made to replace
> aging 2.45 in Fedora 14 and 15?

Why do you ask here?  You should ask the Blender maintainer

Rahul

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 05:33 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I saw some Blender 2.56 packages in Koji for F15, does anybody know if
> > Blender 2.56 will ship with Fedora 15?
>
> Whatever is in Koji will usually end up in the appropriate release.
> > So if Blender 2.56 turns out to be stable could it be made to replace
> > aging 2.45 in Fedora 14 and 15?
>
> Why do you ask here?  You should ask the Blender maintainer

Hoped that there are some users who know something more about Blender
in Fedora, my next step was contacting Blender maintainer.

Cheers,
Valent.

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Valent,

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi galls and guys,
> I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
> 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
> blog post:
> http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
> http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-...
>
> I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
> feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
> instructions.

I followed your instructions but the resulting binary doesn't work.

[duffy@Brigid linux2]$ pwd
/home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2
[duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender 
Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
found bundled
python: /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
Aborted (core dumped)

I tried to post this in your blog but your blog gave me an error message
that it was not accepting POST requests.

~m

[Valent Turkovic]

2011/1/26 Máirín Duffy :
> Hi Valent,
>
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi galls and guys,
> > I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
> > 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
> > blog post:
> > http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
> > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-...
> >
> > I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
> > feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
> > instructions.
>
> I followed your instructions but the resulting binary doesn't work.
>
> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ pwd
> /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2
> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender
> Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> found bundled
> python: /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
> ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I tried to post this in your blog but your blog gave me an error message
> that it was not accepting POST requests.
>
> ~m

I'll check my blog for any issues...

I'll test it right now on clean Fedora 14. Could be I had some package
preinstalled on my system and ommited it from dependencies in
instructions.

Valent.

[Valent Turkovic]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, [e-mail]
 wrote:
> 2011/1/26 Máirín Duffy :
> > Hi Valent,
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Hi galls and guys,
> > > I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
> > > 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
> > > blog post:
> > > http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
> > > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-...
> > >
> > > I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
> > > feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
> > > instructions.
> >
> > I followed your instructions but the resulting binary doesn't work.
> >
> > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ pwd
> > /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2
> > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender
> > Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> > found bundled
> > python: /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
> > Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
> > ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> >
> > I tried to post this in your blog but your blog gave me an error message
> > that it was not accepting POST requests.
> >
> > ~m
>
> I'll check my blog for any issues...
>
> I'll test it right now on clean Fedora 14. Could be I had some package
> preinstalled on my system and ommited it from dependencies in
> instructions.
>
> Valent.

Hi Mairin,
I checked the instuctions so that I made a pristine enviroment via
Fedora 14 Live USB with persistant memory. I installed all
dependencies on this clean system (but without any updates since
Fedora 14 release), then downloaded Blender source files and tried to
compile and run it.

I found only two missing dependencies, gettext and gettext-devel.
After those dependencies were installed Blender compiled without
errors and starts ok.

I get this message when I start Blender:

$ ./blender
Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
found bundled python: /home/liveuser/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python

Are you running Fedora 14? Have you made some tweaks to your system?

Hope this helps.

Valent.

[Valent Turkovic]

Mairin did you manage to get Blender running?

Cheers,
Valent.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM, [e-mail]
 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, [e-mail]
>  wrote:
> > 2011/1/26 Máirín Duffy :
> > > Hi Valent,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > Hi galls and guys,
> > > > I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
> > > > 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
> > > > blog post:
> > > > http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
> > > > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-...
> > > >
> > > > I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
> > > > feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
> > > > instructions.
> > >
> > > I followed your instructions but the resulting binary doesn't work.
> > >
> > > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ pwd
> > > /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2
> > > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender
> > > Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> > > found bundled
> > > python: /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
> > > Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
> > > ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
> > > Aborted (core dumped)
> > >
> > > I tried to post this in your blog but your blog gave me an error message
> > > that it was not accepting POST requests.
> > >
> > > ~m
> >
> > I'll check my blog for any issues...
> >
> > I'll test it right now on clean Fedora 14. Could be I had some package
> > preinstalled on my system and ommited it from dependencies in
> > instructions.
> >
> > Valent.
>
> Hi Mairin,
> I checked the instuctions so that I made a pristine enviroment via
> Fedora 14 Live USB with persistant memory. I installed all
> dependencies on this clean system (but without any updates since
> Fedora 14 release), then downloaded Blender source files and tried to
> compile and run it.
>
> I found only two missing dependencies, gettext and gettext-devel.
> After those dependencies were installed Blender compiled without
> errors and starts ok.
>
> I get this message when I start Blender:
>
> $ ./blender
> Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> found bundled python: /home/liveuser/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
>
> Are you running Fedora 14? Have you made some tweaks to your system?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Valent.
>
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[Máirín Duffy]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:56 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> Mairin did you manage to get Blender running?

No, were there some additional instructions for me to try? Nothing has
changed.

~m

[William Henry]

I've used Blender on Fedora before and got it working. (For a demo with Condor - I'm no Blender expert) Let me know if there is something I can help with.

William

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:56 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Mairin did you manage to get Blender running?
>
> No, were there some additional instructions for me to try? Nothing has
> changed.
>
> ~m
>
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[Valent Turkovic]

On Monday, January 31, 2011, Máirín Duffy  wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:56 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Mairin did you manage to get Blender running?
>
> No, were there some additional instructions for me to try? Nothing has
> changed.
>
> ~m

Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't
see python libs.

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Valent,

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't
> see python libs.

So I deleted everything, downloaded fresh using your tutorial. I already
had gettext and gettext-devel. Same error:

[duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender 
Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
found bundled
python: /home/duffy/Downloads/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
Aborted (core dumped)
[duffy@Brigid linux2]$

< :( 3   <= broken heart!

~m

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On 02/11/2011 04:11 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Valent,
>
> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't
> > see python libs.
>
> So I deleted everything, downloaded fresh using your tutorial. I already
> had gettext and gettext-devel. Same error:
>
> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender
> Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> found bundled
> python: /home/duffy/Downloads/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
> ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
> Aborted (core dumped)
> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$

I've justed grabed blender-2.56a from [1], it work well on f14 x86_64, 
maybe you're using Python3 (instead of 2.7)

[1]: 
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.56abeta/blender-2.56a-beta-linu...

[Valent Turkovic]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Athmane Madjoudj  wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 04:11 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Hi Valent,
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't
> > > see python libs.
> >
> > So I deleted everything, downloaded fresh using your tutorial. I already
> > had gettext and gettext-devel. Same error:
> >
> > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender
> > Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
> > found bundled
> > python: /home/duffy/Downloads/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python
> > Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
> > ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> > [duffy@Brigid linux2]$
>
> I've justed grabed blender-2.56a from [1], it work well on f14 x86_64,
> maybe you're using Python3 (instead of 2.7)
>
> --
> Athmane Madjoudj

Probably Python 3 is the culprit, but I guess you can somehow specify
Blender to use Python 2.7, right? But I don't know how :( Maybe
somebody else can help with this?