After several attempts, Blender is finally available for EPEL9 as 3.3 LTS series. Major differences compared to its Fedora counterpart is the minimal dependencies based on blender_lite.cmake[2] thus light version. As the result, functions like Cycle Rendering will be unavailable but Eevee, Blender internal rendering, is by default. This release is basically a starting point to gradually implement missing dependencies needed for some other options.

EPEL co-maintainers are welcome to further improve the support.

References

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[1] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-ac2da7e3bf

[2] https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/build_files/cmake/config/blender_lite.cmake

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Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Design Team
Fedora Design Suite maintainer