# Difficulty Building/Obtaining Blender 2.79b on A06

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**Category:** DevTerm\
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**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/difficulty-building-obtaining-blender-2-79b-on-a06/8897 "2022-09-09T08:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Floober](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/floober/32/6574_2.png) [@Floober](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Floober)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/difficulty-building-obtaining-blender-2-79b-on-a06/8897/1 "2022-09-09T08:32:19Z")

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I’ve recently received my devterm with the A06 module and I’ve been trying to get a copy of blender 2.79b running on the device, as the default copy of blender provided in the package manager is 3.0.1 and for various reasons would likely not run well on the devterm, if I could even get it to run (by default it crashes because of no opengl support).

For clarification I’ve followed the guide specified here to get my install of ubuntu fully up to date

> [@Hirsute went offline late July 2022, how to manage?](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hirsute-went-offline-late-july-2022-how-to-manage/8770/5):
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> Back on the flip side, this is what I had to do to resolve the apt problem (and upgrade to the latest LTS Ubuntu, 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish): Change entries in /etc/apt/sources.list to old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (not adding /ubuntu at the end was the mistake I made earlier, that caused this change to fail) Deal with armbian-zsh dependency bug This broken dependency was blocking my upgrade (and probably the reason I got stuck here in the first place). Solution: sudo apt purge armbian-zsh && …

Has anyone been able to successfully build from source any version of blender on the devterm? Or found any third party repos with a prebuilt 2.79b arm64 version? Any assistance would be appreciated as so far the only way I’m going to get this working seems to be building from source and I keep hitting obscure compiler errors, despite following all the dependency installer steps using the script blender provides.

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**Author:** ![Floober](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/floober/32/6574_2.png) [@Floober](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Floober)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/difficulty-building-obtaining-blender-2-79b-on-a06/8897/2 "2022-09-09T09:38:58Z")

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Nevermind! I’ve found an alternative way to install a copy of 2.79 following this guide here.

> **[Install Box86 on Arm64](https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16584-install-box86-on-arm64/)**
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> Dear All, I just want to make a Tutorial on my successful attempt in Installing Box86 on Arm64 and Install Wine X86 apps. In this example it is Sketchup 7.1 and Sketchup 8 But before starting I want to thanks to PtitSeb for his hard work to bring...

and it works!