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To install Blender, download the appropriate package for your platform to your computer. The Windows version comes with an optional self-extracting installer, for other operating systems you can unpack the compressed file to the location of your choice.  

Provided the Blender binary is in the original extracted directory, Blender will run straight out of the box. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 is the first official 2.5 testing release from the Blender Foundation. To download it, please select your platform and location. Blender is Free & Open Source Software.

Windows 32 bit

(No installer yet)

Blender 2.5 Alpha0 Zip (18 MB)

Requires Windows XP/Vista/7

USA | Germany | Asia | NL 1 | NL 2

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Windows 64 bit

(no installer yet)

 

 

Blender 2.5 Alpha0 Zip (14 MB)

Requires Windows XP/Vista/7 64bit

USA | Germany | Asia | NL 1 | NL 2

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Note: this version is without video/sound support (ffmpeg, sndfile, jack, quicktime)

Linux x86-32/64

Blender 2.5 Alpha0, 32 bit (19 MB)

Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | NL 1 | Asia

Blender 2.5 Alpha0, 64 bit (20 MB)

Requires a 64 bit linux system!
Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | NL 1 | Asia

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Mac OS X

Blender 2.5 alpha0, PowerPC (14 MB)

Requires Mac OS X 10.5
Suits PowerMac G5, Powerbook G4, iMac G5

USA | Germany | Asia | NL 1

Without FFMPG!

Blender 2.5 Alpha0, Intel (20 MB)

Suits Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac (Core Duo) and iMac (Core 2 Duo).

Mac OS X 10.5, 64 bit

USA | Germany | Asia | NL 1

Mac OS X 10.4, 32 bit

Germany | NL 1