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BLENDER Installation In ETCHHate to be a bother but I've exhausted my resources of the moment and need some direction, Getting Blender (2.42a-7) up and running under ETCH. This will be usimg GNU-LINUX 4.0/NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 installed with 2.6.18-484 kernel on a Pentium 4. I had a previous installation under sarge which was an APT installed, 2.3 version, which was functioning properly but my upgrade to ETCH took care of that! It was it turns out, entirely my fault except for an installer option concerning a software frame buffer which allowed me to make the install after it was declined. Now to my problem: When I click on the Blender menu Item, all I get is a bouncing blender icon which continues to bounce for a few seconds and then disappears. Needless to say the program doesn't start. I started looking around as I normally do when a problem crops up and found, [Installing blender and k3d] on this site. I typed the command and received this response: strace -f -F blender-bin 2>/tmp/strace-log I'm not smart enough to fathom what this means, nor how to proceed further ergo here we are. Steve Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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BLENDER Installation In ETCH
I upgraded smoothly with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' so I never had any issues with blender. So all I can suggest is that you uninstall it and purge all the config files with 'apt-get uninstall --purge blender*' and then re-install again (apt-get install blender).