How to install Blender 2.90 on a Chromebook


Today we are looking at how to install Blender 2.90 on a Chromebook.  Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.

You will notice that every time when starting Blender it will start with a grey screen, minimize and maximize the screen until it works, and then it works as expected.  This version of Blender is however slow on a Chromebook, so if you like to look at Blender 2.82a which is the last release that works really well or Blender 2.79 that works the best.

If you have any questions, please contact us via a YouTube comment and we would be happy to assist you!

Please take note that with the release of Chrome OS 90,  the location of Linux Apps has been changed in the Chromebook’s settings.  Have a look at this tutorial, to see how to turn on Linux apps and then continue with the installation tutorial.

Update: with the release of Chrome OS 96, the Linux container on a Chromebook has been upgraded to a newer version.  Because of this, we need to run one additional command for the application to work, we added it to the list of commands.

Commands Used:
1) sudo apt update
2) sudo apt install flatpak
3) sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
4) sudo flatpak install flathub org.blender.Blender
5) sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/bwrap && sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/bwrap

We highly recommend that you enable the setting in Chrome instead, for better performance.

URL:
chrome://flags/#crostini-gpu-support


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