[Bf-webcontent] Runs out of box?

[Brecht Van Lommel]

We should understand why this happens before adding instructions to do
chmod +x, it might be something that can be fixed in the Blender
release itself or only happens on very specific systems. If we don't
understand why it happens these kinds of issues keep accumulating and
we have to add more and more instructions.

What we as developers really need to know is, if you download Blender
2.69, on which system do you need to do chmod +x after extracting it
with which command or software? I've seen this advice given a few
times but then it ends up being a different issue, like missing OpenGL
graphics drivers.

Brecht.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Nkansah Rexford
<nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Check this
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-68-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian-fedora-opensuse-mageia/
>
> And this
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-67b-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian/
>
> Blender doesn't run out of the box really out of the box always.
>
> My point is, after extracting the archive containing blender, it doesn't
> always run straight out of the box, at least, a last step to make it really
> run is necessary.
>
> It may be a permission requirement on the part of the user and not blenders
> fault, but a new user who reads blender works "out of the box" and can't get
> the "blender" file to run after extracting won't suspect his end to be the
> issue.
>
> plus.google.com/+Nkansahrexford
>
> On Nov 12, 2013 8:16 PM, "Gottfried Hofmann" <gottfried at blenderdiplom.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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