>Hey, by any chance, do you have povray as a script somewhere? That might
>explain it too. Try "which povray" and look at the file. If it is binary,
>you're okay on that front.

Sorry for the delayed reply, I decided to reinstall everything. Now things
are worse off than they originally were.

Here we go.

I have a clean system. I downloaded povray from povray.org. I ran the
install script as root.

In the console I type:
$whereis povray
povray: /usr/local/bin/povray

I noticed that the sample scenes are located at:
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5

so I cd into that directory and into the scenes/advanced folder.

Now to render.as normal user....
# /usr/local/bin/povray diffract.pov

Of course I get a nasty error:
--------------------------------------
Parsing...Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Reading from
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5/scenes/advanced/diffract.pov is not permitted.
Check the configuration in /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf.
--------------------------------------

Ok now onto my problem. There is no configuration file located at
/usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf ?????????????????

I would be more than happy to create it myself but I don't even know what
goes in there.

Surely this install has to be easier than this? I must have done something
wrong. Compiling from source was easier but did not offer me a progressive
render view?

Thanks

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