How do I install the latest Blender 3D builds from a PPA?

Solution 1:

IF you Actually click on the links you can find out why, the address just doesn't exist.

And if you go to the launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~cheleb/+archive/blender-svn you can see it's not accessible.

@PhoneixS asked the maintainer of the PPA Ralf Hölzemer (cheleb) and he said: "...cannot maintain that PPA any longer."

You can however Install it from this other PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~thomas-schiex/+archive/ubuntu/blender

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

The builds are recent so you still get the newest Blender.

Here you can find Instructions on how to Compile Blender from SVN

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/CMake

Solution 2:

And now that Irie PPA is not updated anymore, to get the latest version (updated weekly), you can use this instead:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender