POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : False obstinance in linux installer? : Re: False obstinance in linux installer? Server Time: 6 Jul 2008 08:59:11 GMT
  Re: False obstinance in linux installer?  
From: William Tracy
Date: 13 Nov 2007 20:35:42
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Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>> I guess I'm a little saddened that the suggestion is to do my own
>> compilation.

You still don't need to compile yourself, just grab the tarball from
povray.org.

>   In the MegaPOV install? No, the bug is almost certainly in the Debian
> version of POV-Ray, which surely installs files on non-standard
> places... that is, in places different than the official POV-Ray
> install.

I wouldn't call it a bug, so much as the standard Povray installer not
quite conforming to the FHS.

What we really need is to have someone build a MegaPOV package for
Debian. Unfortunately, I don't foresee having free time to do it myself
within the next month or so. :-(

- --
William Tracy
afishionado [at] gmailcom -- wtracy [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when you watch the Making of
Mist video to see what modeler they use.
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