Installation on Linux

This guide covers the following topics:

Installing Dependencies

Below are listed the installation commands for popular Linux distributions.

For the appropriate system, run the command in a terminal:

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip subversion

Redhat/Fedora:

sudo yum install python python-pip

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S python python-pip subversion

Warning

Python 3.10 is not yet support, it is recommended to use Python 3.9 or earlier.

Simply check out the Blender Manual’s repository using:

cd ~
svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual/trunk/blender_docs

The repository will now be downloaded which may take a few minutes depending on your internet connection.

Open a Terminal window.
Enter the blender_docs folder which was just added by the SVN checkout:
```
cd ~/blender_docs
```
Inside that folder is a file called requirements.txt which contains a list of all the dependencies we need. To install these dependencies, we can use the pip3 command:
```
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```

Note

Every now and then you may want to make sure your dependencies are up to date using:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt --upgrade