For both Mandrake and Corel:

1) If you got POV-Ray in some sort of package from your Linux vendor,
I'm not in a terribly good position to help.  Mandrake presumably uses
RPM; Corel might do likewise, in which case installing the RPM's is all
there is to it.

2) If you're using the official version from either povray.org or the
latest IRTC CD, I can answer questions.  If you're used to RPM, you may
be entirely unfamiliar with the concept of a tarball.  Here's the short
version:

$ cd /wherever/you/put/the/download/povlinux.tgz
$ tar xvfz povlinux.tgz
$ cd povray31
$ su
Password:
# ./install
# exit
$ cd
$ cp /usr/local/lib/povray31/povray.ini ~/.povrayrc

At that point, you should be ready to go.  I get some minor error
messages that don't really mean anything (mv: cannot remove directory
`povray31`).  If you have any other questions:

$ man povray
(read the manpage, especially for details on command-line usage)
$ less /usr/local/lib/povray31/povuser.txt
(read the documentation for how to use the scene description language if
it's unfamiliar)

BTW, it's generally a good idea to use a non-root account when doing
anything not involved with system administration.  Generally I log in as
a normal user and su when necessary.

-Mark Gordon

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