After several years spent (for work reasons) almost entirely in the
Winsux world, I finally got a new machine with room for a Linux
partition.  I installed Debian Linux (slink) and got it working and X
configured without too much trouble.  The packages Debian installed
all seem to work correctly.  However, the first external package I
tried to install was, of course,  POV (3.1g from povray.org).
Everything seems to be in the correct directories, but both x-povray
and s-povray immediately return a segmentation fault when I try to run
a test render (as root).  Running as myself, x-povray still seg
faults, but s-povray reports "error in loading shared library:
undefined symbol: __bzero".  I tried using Superpatch povray and the
seg faults went away, but in both x-povray and povray under root, I
get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
__register_frame_info".  I get the same as myself with x-povray and
with povray, I get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined
symbol: __deregister_frame_info".  Obviously, I did something wrong
somewhere.  With time and Linux experience, no doubt, I can find the
trouble but - perhaps it is a character flaw - I wanna POV *now*!  Can
anyone spare a clue?

Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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