Older Version of Blender for ARM processors?

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I have been going at this for some time now,  I cant seem to compile blender from source due to some deprecated directives in cmake and jpeg_library, although there may be a way to do this that I am just unaware, following the guides on making from source did not work.  I am trying to simply install version 2.79, the newest version that will run, (for ARM) on Ubuntu Mate...the apt-get install seems to be set to the 2.82 package which cannot run on my hardware due to 2.8 and up using OpenGL 3.3 (Running Raspberry Pi 4b).. Does anyone know where I can download a prebuilt version for ARM processors?  Unfortunately it is not included in the repository...If anyone knows how I can install the older package via apt-get or some other way I would be appreciative?
Tried Stuff like:
sudo apt-get install blender= 2.79.b+dfsg0-7
to no avail, just
apt-cache policy blender
blender:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.82.a+dfsg-1
Version table:
2.82.a+dfsg-1 500
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal/universe arm64 Packages

Don Flymoor · Answer

You can run blender 2.82 on the Pi, with the following command:
sudo apt install blender
then:
MESA_OPENGL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 blender
But that's a hack, it's slow, and lighting doesn't work correctly.
On the plus side, you can compile blender 2.79 by running a modified version of the setup script and disabling cycles embree. To edit the setup script successfully, remove all mentions of sse, and replace all -march=i386 flags with -march=native.

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