=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> I just downloaded the zip package from povray.org, unzipped it into my
> home directory... changed to the "unix" directory, read the instructions
> in install.txt - but even failed to perform only the first command,

> there is no configure program at all!
>
> Where do I have to look?!?
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar

Check the unix section. There are several threads regarding compiling on various
Unix-like system.s

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Hi(gh)!

On 09.02.2014 02:34, James Holsenback wrote:

> did you use sudo on apt-get commands?

Not sudo, but generally as su!

> what does you configure command looks like ... did you add appropriate
> options? http://wiki.povray.org/content/User:Le_Forgeron/vault/Compilation



checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... no
configure: error: cannot find a suitable boost thread library

- same as before.

The version for Ubuntu 13.10, g++ version 4.8.1:

checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/yadgar/povray-3.7-stable':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

Why is this all so [beeeeep!] complicated?!? I'm about to contemplate 
whether I should change to a 64-bit Windows XP system rather than 
Linux... but I do not want to be online under Windows!!! And my wohnklo 
(German colloquial for "tiny little apartment") is too small for two big 
desktops!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 09.02.2014 02:34, James Holsenback wrote:
>
>> did you use sudo on apt-get commands?
>
> Not sudo, but generally as su!
>
>> what does you configure command looks like ... did you add appropriate
>> options?
>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/User:Le_Forgeron/vault/Compilation
>

>
> checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... no
> configure: error: cannot find a suitable boost thread library
>
> - same as before.
>
> The version for Ubuntu 13.10, g++ version 4.8.1:
>
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/home/yadgar/povray-3.7-stable':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details

well geee whizzzz the above tells me you don't even have the correct 
build environment yet ... you need to get the compiler working first.

apt-cache search build-essential

also of interest (povray basic requirements):
apt-get install zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev

optional:

apt-get install libopenexr-dev
apt-get build-dep libsdl1.2-dev
apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev

> Why is this all so [beeeeep!] complicated?!? I'm about to contemplate
> whether I should change to a 64-bit Windows XP system rather than
> Linux... but I do not want to be online under Windows!!! And my wohnklo
> (German colloquial for "tiny little apartment") is too small for two big
> desktops!

No it's not really complicated ... just new to you. If you're not 
willing to dig in and learn it, maybe switching is the right answer, but 
hey IMHO building binaries on windows machines is WAY more involved.

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:

Well, let's start at the beginning:

1) What kind of computer are you running?
2) What OS are you using? (Debina? Ubuntu? Mint? SteamOS?)
3) If all else fails, I or someone else can compile a static binary and send it
to you.

With regard to boost, I have not had any problems with downloading, compiling,
and installing the boost libraries from www.boost.org (actually only need to
compile two of the threading libraries, but I install all of it anyway).

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> Why is this all so [beeeeep!] complicated?!?

    Because having a working boost is a moving target ?

-- 
http://foo.bar.quux.over-blog.com/article-thsf-2013-114632120.html

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Have you been using Povray 3.6 this whole time? Were you able to compile any of
the 3.7RCs during the past year?

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On 02/09/2014 10:07 AM, jhu wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>
> Well, let's start at the beginning:
>
> 1) What kind of computer are you running?
> 2) What OS are you using? (Debina? Ubuntu? Mint? SteamOS?)

look at his last post ;-)

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James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 10:07 AM, jhu wrote:
> > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> >
> > Well, let's start at the beginning:
> >
> > 1) What kind of computer are you running?
> > 2) What OS are you using? (Debina? Ubuntu? Mint? SteamOS?)
>
> look at his last post ;-)

Doesn't say what OS he's using. He just says he tried instructions for Ubuntu
13.10 and 13.04. That doesn't tell us what OS he's actually using. Assuming apt
works on his system, he could be running any Debian-based OS (Debian, Ubunt,
Mint, SteamOS, etc.).

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On 02/09/2014 11:42 AM, jhu wrote:
> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>> On 02/09/2014 10:07 AM, jhu wrote:
>>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, let's start at the beginning:
>>>
>>> 1) What kind of computer are you running?
>>> 2) What OS are you using? (Debina? Ubuntu? Mint? SteamOS?)
>>
>> look at his last post ;-)
>
> Doesn't say what OS he's using. He just says he tried instructions for Ubuntu
> 13.10 and 13.04. That doesn't tell us what OS he's actually using. Assuming apt
> works on his system, he could be running any Debian-based OS (Debian, Ubunt,
> Mint, SteamOS, etc.).
>
>

lol ... only after posting did I consider that I'd made too big of an 
assumption

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Hi(gh)!

On 09.02.2014 15:51, James Holsenback wrote:

> apt-cache search build-essential

sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources
build-essential - Informal list of packages needed to generate packages
devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian package attendant easier
dh-buildinfo - debhelper enhancement to track package versions used in 
building of a package

Is that enough?

> also of interest (povray basic requirements):
> apt-get install zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev


Error: Package libtiff5-dev cannot be found.

> apt-get install libopenexr-dev

Error: Package libopenexr-dev cannot be found.

> apt-get build-dep libsdl1.2-dev

The following packages have unresolved dependences:
libaa1-dev : depends on: libslang2-dev but shall not be installed
               depends on: libncurses5-dev but shall not be installed
  libarts1-dev : depends on: libartsc0-dev (= 1.5.9-3+b2) but shall not 
be installed
                 depends on: libglib2.0-dev but shall not be installed
                 depends on: libjack0.100.0-dev
                 depends on: libmad0-dev but shall not be installed
                 depends on: libogg-dev but shall not be installed
                 depends on: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3:3.3.5) but shall not be 
installed
                 depends on: libvorbis-dev but shall not be installed
  libasound2-dev : depends on: libasound2 (= 1.0.23-2.1)
  libcaca-dev : depends on: libcaca0 (= 0.99.beta17-1) but 0.99.beta18-1 
shall be installed
                depends on: libncurses5-dev but shall not be installed
                depends on: libslang2-dev but shall not be installed
  libdirectfb-dev : depends on: libdirectfb-1.2-9 (= 1.2.10.0-4) but 
1.2.10.0-5 shall be installed
                    depends on: libdirectfb-extra but shall not be installed
                    depends on: libfreetype6-dev but shall not be installed
                    depends on: libjpeg-dev
                    depends on: libpng12-dev but shall not be installed
                    depends on: zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.1.3) soll aber nicht 
installiert werden
                    depends on: libsysfs-dev but shall not be installed
  libesd0-dev : depends on: libesd0 (= 0.2.41-8) but 0.2.41-10+b1 shall 
be installed
                depends on: esound-common (= 0.2.41-8) but 0.2.41-10 
shall be installed
  libgl1-mesa-dev : depends on: libgl1-mesa-glx (= 7.7.1-6) but 
8.0.5-4+deb7u2 shall be installed
  libglu1-mesa-dev : depends on: libglu1-mesa (= 7.7.1-6) but 
8.0.5-4+deb7u2 shall be installed
  libpulse-dev : depends on: libpulse0 (= 0.9.21-3+squeeze1) but 2.0-6.1 
shall be installed
                 depends on: libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (= 
0.9.21-3+squeeze1) but 2.0-6.1 shall be installed
                 depends on: libpulse-browse0 (= 0.9.21-3+squeeze1) but 
shall not be installed
                 depends on: libglib2.0-dev but shall not be installed
                 depends on: libavahi-client-dev but shall not be installed
  libsvga1-dev : depends on: libsvga1 (= 1:1.4.3-29) but 1:1.4.3-33 
shall be installed
  libx11-dev : depends on: libx11-6 (= 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1) but 
2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1 shall be installed
               depends on: libxau-dev (>= 1:1.0.0-1) but shall not be 
installed
               depends on: libxdmcp-dev (>= 1:1.0.0-1) but shall not be 
installed
               depends on: libxcb1-dev but shall not be installed
  libxext-dev : depends on: libxext6 (= 2:1.1.2-1+squeeze1) but 
2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1 shall be installed
                depends on: x11proto-xext-dev (>= 7.0.99.2) but shall 
not be installed
  libxt-dev : depends on: libxt6 (= 1:1.0.7-1+squeeze1) but 
1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1 shall be installed
              depends on: libsm-dev soll aber nicht installiert werden
  libxv-dev : depends on: libxv1 (= 2:1.0.5-1+squeeze1) but 
2:1.0.7-1+deb7u1 shall be installed
Error: Build dependences for libsdl1.2-dev could not be resolved.

> apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev

The following packages have unresolved dependences:
  libsdl1.2-dev : Depends on: libsdl1.2debian (= 1.2.14-6.1) but 
1.2.15-5 shall be installed
                  Depends on: libx11-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libglu1-mesa-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libasound2-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libartsc0-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libesd0-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libpulse-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libdirectfb-dev (>= 0.9.22) shall not be 
installed
                  Depends on: libsvga1-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libaa1-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libcaca-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libxt-dev shall not be installed
                  Depends on: libxext-dev shall not be installed
Error: Problems cannot be corrected, you have defect packages held back.

I'm fed up with it... Linux sucks!!!

I give up! Linux sucks!

> No it's not really complicated ... just new to you. If you're not
> willing to dig in and learn it, maybe switching is the right answer, but
> hey IMHO building binaries on windows machines is WAY more involved.

I want my Commodore 64 back!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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