Couldn't get Blender running

• By Arthur
• on 03/25/2017

Although I'm not a linux guru I do know how to handle the console, compile stuff etc.
I spent about 6 (payed) hours trying to get Blender running in this machine, without success.
- There's no Blender yum package
- After enabling Epel (and confirming that it's enabled) strangely there still is no Blender package
- Yum cannot resolve the dependencies of a recent Blender rpm (libGLEW etc)
- Compiling Blender there's version collisions with libgcc
- Tediously installing dependencies by hand resulted in more conflicts
Etc. pp.

I have no idea what kind of system that is and honestly I have no experience with RHEL. So some of you might laugh about me now, I'm ok with that.
But to my defense nobody on stackoverflow could answer that simple question "How to install Blender into this AMI" either.

I'm trying now my way with a generic Ubuntu image and getting CUDA and Nvidia drivers up and running there. Blender's working there, also a custom build, without issues.