Herman Serras wrote:
> 
> For many years I'm using Povray on a Windows platform. Being new to
> linux (Suse 8.2) I tried to install Povray under windows.
> On http://www.povray.org/download I found some instructions to install,
> but I didn't manage it.
> I downloaded povlinux.tgz to a temporary map home/xxx/Temp (where xxx is
> the name of the user). Using "tar" as mentioned on the site I get a new
> map home/xxx/Temp/Povray-3.5.
> Cd to this map and ./install gives nothing.

I hope you are aware that 'gives nothing' is almost as far as possible
from what i would call an accurate description.  

> [...] but I don't know how to
> start the program (or the test.sh script).
> I'm sure I have to work on my knowledge of linux...

This has nothing to do with it.  You just have to read the POV-Ray manual
(specifically the part about command line options).

Note that the binary installation is surely not perfect and there are
several places where it could be improved but none the less it should be
possible to install and use POV-Ray on a linux machine for someone with
basic knowledge about computers and POV-Ray.

Christoph

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