Thanks to the efforts of Mr Marillat from debian-multimedia[1] there is now a fully working Blender build available to Debian d-m users, just install blender from debian-multimedia repository (currently in unstable, look for "Christian Marillat" in the maintainer field).
Many thanks to him. [1]http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
