> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 10.02.2014 17:21, jhu wrote:
>
>>  From the main povray source you downloaded, copy the following
>> directories to
>> /usr/local/share/povray-3.7
>>
>> ini
>> include
>> scenes
>> scripts
>
> After having also copied povray.conf and povray.ini into the respective
> (newly created) directories, it works fine... thank you for compiling, jhu!
>
> Two issues remain: firstly, I still get a warning message "Problem with
> option setting", and, as already with 3.6 on my Linux system, I have no
> proper preview window, instead of displaying the scene, merely the
> non-white parts of backdrop (non-POV-Ray) windows are tinted. I assume
> that this is a problem of my graphics driver... do you know of any
> workarounds for this (in earlier installations of Debian Linux, I in
> fact had a real rendering preview!)?

in regards to the lack of preview window, perhaps the binary was built 
without libsdl (simple directmedia layer) ... see what povray --version 
returns (hint look for X Window display enabled/disabled)

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