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  Re: Standard include folder of POV-Ray 3.6 under Debian Sidux?  
From: nemesis
Date: 23 Oct 2008 21:00:01
Message: <web.49011d8d7d7931532e5031040@news.povray.org>
=?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> High!
>
> My loved one, an avid Blenderer, send me a contribution for a joint
> project... but unfortunately, Blender's POV export function generates a
> huge collection of include files, which are mostly to be stored in POV's
> include folder.
>
> But I wonder that obviously, there is no include folder at all with
> POV-Ray 3.6 for (Debian Sidux) Linux. /usr/share/povray, which would be
> the most probable place to look for, simply contains no include folder -
> and as I just wrote a small test scene and tried to render it, POV-Ray
> returned an error because of being unable to locate "colors.inc" - so
> could it be that my version came with no standard includes at all?
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar

It's /usr/share/povray/include on Ubuntu.  Should be the same on Debian...

If it's giving you much trouble, just download the binary distribution from
povray.org and install it in your $HOME


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