POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray Installation thread : Re: POV-Ray Installation thread Server Time
20 May 2024 04:26:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Installation thread  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 15 May 2021 16:39:53
Message: <60a03199$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/15/21 3:43 PM, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> ...
>>> /home/povray/povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0/bin/povr
>> There isnt' a bin directory shipped with
>> povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0 so guessing you created it and the povr
>> script/command within the directory?
> 
> just chiming in on this point.  the script I provided installed povr, as a
> package, in '/home/povray/povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0/'.  (installed and owned
> by "regular user" BE)
> 
> 
Ah, OK. Then my guess is the sym link should be to the file:

/home/povray/povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0/bin/povray

and that Bill can probably run

/home/povray/povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0/bin/povray --version

In other words, he isn't really using the 'povr' wrapper script?

---
...I'm left, though, not understanding why he isn't getting a "command 
not found" message if the file:

/home/povray/povray-3.8.0-x.povr_b0bcf6c0/bin/povr

doesn't really exist on his system...

Bill P.


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