Bonsai wrote:
>Maybe you don't have PNG-Support installed. Search for a RPM called
>libpng*.rpm on the RedHat CDs. Install it an try again to install
>POV-Ray. Or maybe libpng is not called "libpng.so.0". Then a symbolic
>link (ln -s) could help you.
>
>This is what I would try,
>
>Bonsai

Well, I have libpng on my machine.  I went to the extent that I have changed
distributions from RH 9 to Mandrake 9.1  I know that there is a command or
two that I'm missing and I will kick myself for not getting it the first
time, but for the life of me I can't decipher it.  I even went to the
extent of re- reading about installing tarballs on TLDP, but I can't get
../configure ./install or make to work.  Really frustrating.

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Unwashed wrote:
> Well, I have libpng on my machine.  I went to the extent that I have changed
> distributions from RH 9 to Mandrake 9.1  I know that there is a command or
> two that I'm missing and I will kick myself for not getting it the first
> time, but for the life of me I can't decipher it.  I even went to the
> extent of re- reading about installing tarballs on TLDP, but I can't get
> ../configure ./install or make to work.  Really frustrating.

I'm a little confused by your description in this thread of the steps
you've taken to install POV-Ray. I am getting the impression that you've
downloaded the binary version but you're trying to follow the source
code version's installation instructions.

Where did you download the POV-Ray program?

If you downloaded it from the POV-Ray official site, what's the name
of the tar archive you downloaded? Is it povlinux.tgz (the binary
version) or povuni_s.tgz (the source code version)?

If you downloaded the povlinux.tgz binary version, untarred it
and ran the ./install script then you've already successfully installed
POV-Ray. There is no ./configure make stuff you can do with it. Try
running "povray" from the command line and see if you have it
successfully installed.

If you downloaded the povuni_s.tgz source code version then
when you untar it you will have to do the ./configure, make, install
dance to get it installed. There's a file called INSTALL that
provides instructions on how to do this.

If none of the above helps you then please provide some details
about where you downloaded the file from, what steps you took to
try to install POV-Ray and what sort of error messages you are
getting (if any).

-Roz

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Unwashed wrote:

> I am trying to install POV Ray on my linux system.  If I try to install it
> through  an RPM, then I receive an error that says "Package not found
> libpng.so.0".  I also tried to install using the source files but after I
> ran ./install and navigated to the newly copied folder in
> /usr/local/share/povray-3.5 I can't run ./configure in the folder as the
> instructions said.  What am I missing?  If this is a RTFM moment then tell
> me where in the manual I need to go and I'll do it

The only problem I had with installing the binary from
www.povray.org/download is that the install script assumes
there's already a /usr/local/etc directory. If there is not
then it will write one file after another to that location,
and /usr/local/etc ends up *being* the last file copied there
rather than a directory containing those files.

-- 
Bill Hails

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