It creates a new blender config on the user .config
I figured it would do that, but I was curious if you would need to use sudo or su, or something since the blender site does say it can be installed in the /usr directory.
Untar it using su or sudo of course. The blender executable can be run by the user without using sudo or su.
I do not think that is correct (I may be wrong, but advises using root for something must be 1000% save I think).
I browsed through the thread and got the idea that it can be installed on the system (so every user can use it, rather normal for any application on the system). In which case the installation should be done “as root”. Something that YaST does of course and that the system manager does when using zypper. All “non-standard” installations to the system must be inspected carefully about what they are going to place where and what they are going o do further. When the “non-standard” is an RPM, it probably will be OK. When it is a tarball with a rather standard build recipe, only the install phase should be done “as root”, but the untar and all build steps should be done by a “normal” user.
Now a “normal” user can of course “install” a program somewhere in his own disk area (usual inside /home/<username>/). This is a bit like writing a program and/or script yourself. And the user can then execute it (but not other users can without further actions). And yes, such an installation might be done by untarring a tar-file downloaded from a web-site. But that then is to be done by the user in a place he determined himself. No “root” involved at all.
So please be careful and be very sure when you put files (by untar or otherwise) on the wild inside system directories.
Thank you. You articulated it better than I did.
Hi,
Agree with what you said all the way and thanks again for the pointers.
I am just talking about the blender application extractible tar.xz file here.
We will not be able to extract it in the /usr/local without root permission.
I am just doing it to be sure extracting it in the /usr/local, the user will be able to run it without root permission.
Like what happened in the opening post from the op.
When this application is offered in this way (a tar file that should be extracted in /user/local), then of course the untar must be done “by root”.
The permissions then should of course be set in a way that users can execute the (one or more) programs from the product, but that should already be the case, permissions, etc. are saved within the tar file. Only think that maybe should be done is adding the path to the directory where those executable programs are, to the PATH variable. Normally /usr/local/bin is already in PATH.
That’s right. When extracting the blender tar.xz file by root in /usr/local it goes in bin folder and inside it, is the blender executable and all the blender stuffs. It looks like this /usr/local/bin/blender.
With this I assume it is already in the PATH. Pardon my english I am really still struggling with it.
Ehat you tell about the extracting looks good.
You could do
ls -l /usr/local/bin/blender
to show the owners and permissions.
You could do
echo $PATH
to see if /usr/local/bin is in there (no assuming needed, check the facts).
You can do
which blender
to see if the PATH lets the shell land at the correct file.
I have installed open suse Leap 15.4 and almost nothing is possible I cannot open the trash cannot open a program like blender 3.3 dowloaded.
All about security rights I have added the group root to myself but I sill cannot do anything.
I hate all this overdone security. I am willing to get back to version 15.3
Adding yourself to the root group is of course a very bad idea.
You talking about blender (of which I do not know what it is), did you see several threads here the last few days about blender problems?
I installed leap 15.4 again now its working fine.
I do not now what happend.
Blender is the best open source 2D/3D content creation
https://blender.org
I will probably never understand those web sites. A lot of whistles and bells and nice imgaes on the page, but nowhere any explanation about what the product is for.
Built to last.
The first long-term support of the 3.x series is here!
Discover Blender 3.3 LTS
Isn’t that nice? But what is it? Even something like your short explanation “open source 2D/3D content creation” is missing. 
Wikipedia has a rather lengthy article about it. Blender (software) - Wikipedia
Although it does start with the banner message:
This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. …
Of course Wikipedia has it all as usual. But don’t you think it is strange that a product’s web site depends on a visitor first deviating to Wikipedia to find out what the web site is about?
And it is a well spread disease. Even this one https://www.opensuse.org/ starts with showing a page where the first message is
De beste keuze voor systeembeheerders, ontwikkelaars en bureaubladgebruikers.
Can’t get that in English :(. Something like
The best choice for system managers, developers and desktop users
Nowhere the word Operating System. It could be about beer also.
Perhaps Blender’s developers/web designers believe they serve a niche market and anyone visiting the site already knows what the software is/does… but we digress from the OP’s thread topic.
I see this often. But yes, we digress.
https://www.blender.org/about/
You could clickon the menu button