No Collada (.dae) Import option on Ubuntu 2.76b

Question

I'm running blender on Ubuntu 16.04, with just a simple apt-get install blender and the blender version is 2.76b. When I goto File->Import there is no option to import .dae files. Is there anyway around this, reinstalling, using a repository or manually adding in an add-on that could help fix this?

Possible duplicate of How do I add the ability to import Collada files to Blender 2.76? — Duarte Farrajota Ramos, Mar 12 '18 at 05:53
Related https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/30530/how-do-i-get-blender-to-import-a-collada-file — Duarte Farrajota Ramos, Mar 12 '18 at 05:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '18 at 14:11

Found a fix (by complete coincidence) on this Github page: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Chromebook-Pixel

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt update && sudo apt install blender

No Collada (.dae) Import option on Ubuntu 2.76b

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