Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 04:11 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> Hi Valent,
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, valent.turkovic at gmail.com 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 at 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 at 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-linux-glibc27-x86_64.tar.bz2
>
> --
> 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?


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