Template:Building Blender/Linux/intro

Quick Setup
The following instructions will create a Blender build in a `blender-git` folder in your home directory.

Download Sources
Download the latest source code from the projects.blender.org.

Developers pushing to the repository should use `git://` instead of `https://`, and should follow the instructions on the Git Usage page as well, where additional information on using Git with Blender's sources can be found.

Download Libraries
For Intel and AMD Linux systems, we recommend using precompiled libraries. These are the quickest way to get a feature complete Blender build and can be downloaded as follows.

These libraries are built on Rocky8 for VFX reference platform compatibility, but they work fine on other Linux distributions.

For other systems or to use system packages, see Advanced Setup.

Update and Build
Get latest source code and add-ons, and build. These commands can be used for the first build, and repeated whenever you want to update to the latest version.

After the build finished, you will find blender ready to run in `~/blender-git/build_linux/bin`.

If building fails after an update, it sometimes helps to remove the `~/blender-git/build_linux` folder to get a completely clean build.