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Installation

Installing Blender Launcher

  1. Download latest release for your OS from releases page
  2. Unpack Blender Launcher.exe file and place it somewhere on your drive
  3. Run Blender Launcher.exe file
  4. If this is a first launch, program will ask for choosing Library Folder
  5. Enjoy!

For Archlinux Users

Install from AUR blender-launcher-bin or blender-launcher-git for experimental features

Updating Blender Launcher

Manual update

  1. Download latest release for your OS from releases page
  2. Quit running instance of Blender Launcher
  3. Unpack Blender Launcher.exe file and replace existing one
  4. Enjoy!

Automatic update

v1.15.1 and lower

Automatic updates are not available if you are using a version of the blender launcher prior to the 1.15.2 version. To update, you need to do a manual update of the blender launcher.

  1. Press the Update to version %.%.% button on the right bottom corner
  2. Wait until downloading and extracting process is finished
  3. Wait for ~5-30 second while new version is configured and automatically launched
  4. Enjoy!

Important Notes

Library Folder

It is recommended to create a new folder on a non system drive or inside user folder like Documents to avoid any file collisions and have a nice structure.

Windows Users

Don’t use UAC protected folders like Program Files and don’t run Blender Launcher with administration rights. It may cause unexpected behavior for program itself as well as Blender 3D.

Linux Users

  • Make sure that OS GLIBC version is 2.27 or higher otherwise try to build Blender Launcher from source manually following Development documentation page.
  • Consider installing TopIcons Plus extension for proper tray icon support.

About AUR Packages

  • The AUR packages are based on this repo, but they are not maintained by core contributors of BLV2.

Blender Version Manager Users

Since Blender Launcher is written from scratch with a different concept in mind it is strongly recommended not to use a Root Folder as Library Folder. Otherwise delete all builds from Root Folder or move them to %Library Folder%\daily directory.