How to install blender

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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I am not able to install blender on endeavourOS on raspberry pi 4B.

$ yay -S blender
:: There are 8 providers available for blender:
:: Repository AUR
    1) blender-2.83-git 2) blender-2.93-git 3) blender-3.0-git 4) blender-bin 5) blender-develop-git 6) blender-git 7) upbge-bin 8) upbge-git 

Enter a number (default=1): 
==> 4
:: There are 14 providers available for vulkan-driver:
:: Repository extra
    1) nvidia-utils 2) vulkan-asahi 3) vulkan-broadcom 4) vulkan-dzn 5) vulkan-freedreno 6) vulkan-gfxstream 7) vulkan-intel 8) vulkan-kosmickrisp 9) vulkan-nouveau 10) vulkan-panfrost 11) vulkan-powervr 12) vulkan-radeon 13) vulkan-swrast 14) vulkan-virtio 

Enter a number (default=1): 
==> 3
AUR Explicit (1): blender-bin-5.0.1-1
Sync Dependency (2): vulkan-broadcom-1:26.0.1-1, libxcrypt-compat-4.5.2-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: blender-bin
  1 blender-bin                      (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
  1 blender-bin                      (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
==> ERROR: blender-bin is not available for the 'aarch64' architecture.
 -> error downloading sources: /home/fckwan/.cache/yay/blender-bin 
         context: exit status 12 
         

:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: blender-bin
 -> The following packages are not compatible with your architecture:
  blender-bin
:: Try to build them anyway? [Y/n] n
 -> aborting due to user

via pacman

$ sudo pacman -S blender
error: target not found: blender
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Blender is available in the Archlinux x86_64 repositories.

But Blender is not available in the Archlinux ARM aarch64 repositories.

You could go to the Archlinux ARM forum

Go to the “Packages” section and ask if they could include Blender in Their repos.

Otherwise, you would have to compile it for ARM aarch64. Compiling blender would probably be a long process.

Pudge

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It seems blender on ARM isn’t official supported and therefore tinker territory.

That means no official package is available on ARM (pacman failing). With yay the non-ARM bin packages will also be not available. You have to compile it yourself from the AUR git and pray, but I assume that’s also very unlikely to just run through.

You have to download the source yourself and try to figure it out. That will be a time sink. If you don’t commit to that I would consider it “not available”.