Lonney wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried the 1.5mb compiled download from the site? I keep
> getting garbage displayed on the screen, no 'gz' file. I'm using
> Mandrake Linux which is to say Red Hat 5.0. Any suggestions?
> dew### [at] dewetecom

	OK, this may be a little long.

	I installed POV-Ray 3.1g here on what is basically RedHat 5.2,
although I have stuff from every sources there is. 
	I use a PC.
	I hope this reflects your situation.

	Download povlinux.tgz to the directory where you want the
installation to take place : I recommend /usr/local/lib/ . There you
untar/unzip the file this way : tar -zxvf povlinux.tgz. This will
create one povray31 folder and place s-povray and x-povray in
/usr/local/bin/ . As this is a pre-compile the program is already
functionnal.
	Now you'll have to do a little housekeeping. Read the file
README.linux to learn where to put certain files like the povray.1
man page.

	Write some little .pov script and use the command :

		x-povray -i "your_script_path_and_file_name" +d +p 

	It should do the trick.

	To write you scripts I recommend the pov-mode of Peter or Mika (aka
Warp). Search this group for it.

	Have fun.

	Jean

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