"Josh Kupershmidt" <schmiddy^at^gmail^dot^com> wrote:
> "H. Karsten" <h-karsten()web.de> wrote:
> > I solved it my self.
> > I've deleted the Ubuntu-package and compiled my own Povray.
> >
> > Now it goes :)
>
> I stopped using the Ubuntu packages for povray in order to stay on the 3.7
> bleeding edge, and because of the suckiness of Ubuntu's povray package, but try
> to report bugs in the Ubuntu packages if you can.
>
> In my experience the maintainer(s) have been doing a particularly bad job with
> the povray package -- they seem to not test the very basics of whether povray
> actually works beyond getting it to build and install. I filed a bug in
> launchpad (#130281) ages ago that might actually be related to the problem you
> were seeing. Ugh. I guess the Ubuntu folks just don't care about broken stuff in
> Multiverse.


My official ubuntu bug report on this very problem got demoted/ promoted to
"wishlist."

:-p

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