[Bf-webcontent] Runs out of box?

[Gottfried Hofmann]

On 11/12/2013 05:00 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
> On the download page, about how to install blender, I read this:
> "Blender will run straight out of the box"
>
> However, I find typing chmod +x blender in terminal before I'm able to
> run the executable for the first time in Ubuntu.

It ran out of the box on all my Ubuntu PCs. Always.

> I'm currently on Ubuntu 13.10 and didn't have to do that though. But for
> others on 13.04 or below, if clicking the exe doesn't work they might
> consider it as a bug.

There is no .EXE for Linux. Did you download windows version and run it 
through wine by accident?

> Blender doesn't run straight out of the box, always.

It should, it's mostly statically linked.

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