Please update Blender to 3.6.2

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The Blender you get in Ubuntu with `sudo apt install blender` is awful. It gets slower and slower after two hours of working. Crashes on large files. And won't render, giving the error: "Built without Open Image Denoise". If you instead use the latest Blender LTS from the Blender website everything works perfectly.

But you can't install that Blender version automatically, you have to take longer doing the download and extract manually.

Please keep your APT packages up to date with the latest version of software in Ubuntu. Otherwise this OS is not trustworthy and wastes users time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: blender 3.4.1+dfsg-2build3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-1011.11-lowlatency 6.2.15
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-1011-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Aug 31 10:11:51 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-07-27 (34 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: blender
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-07-27 (34 days ago)

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Blender 3.6.2 fails to build from source in s390x and riscv64.

I'm attaching the debdiff that fixes the issue in s390x[1], and probably in riscv64 as the initial device pointer errors were the same in both (I cannot build for riscv64 in my PPA as that requires Launchpad administrator privileges).

[1] https://launchpad.net/~nteodosio/+archive/ubuntu/rebuilds/+build/26682216

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

> I'm attaching the debdiff that fixes the issue in s390x[1], and probably in riscv64

Test build that includes riscv64

https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3997/+sourcepub/15141651/+listing-archive-extra

[[e-mail] (faranta)]

Workaround: Just install Blender with Snap and everything works perfectly. Rather just remove Blender from apt so you don't have these two confusing version available, one of which doesn't work.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

To be fair, we're working on this for Mantic Minotaur (future 23.10) and it's not likely to be backported to 23.04, so if you need 3.6.2 the snap is probably the best way to go or wait and upgrade to 23.10 when it is released in October.

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Ah, so there is still ARMv7 failing. Why doesn't the excuses page list that?

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Nathan, Armv7 (armhf) fails and is expected. It's been removed from the archive because blender no longer supports 32-bit architectures.

[Lukas Märdian (slyon)]

Unsubscribing ~ubuntu-sponsors, as this has been uploaded already.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package blender - 3.6.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1

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blender (3.6.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches: patchset updated (LP: #2033618)
    - 0004-double-promotion-not-error.patch added
    - 0005-device-pointer-type.patch added

 -- Nathan Pratta Teodosio <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:51:34 +0200