Thanks Ken,

That works great. I guess I am not smart enough yet to figure out how to
get povray.ini working :-)

Could anyone explain to me how to get povray.ini and .povrayrc etc all 
working together?

Please forgive my questions, I haven't used a command line since 1991!

-paul



Ken Cecka wrote:
 > Well,  it's not a real solution, but I've just been adding
 > +L/usr/local/lib/povray-3.4.99.2/include/ to my command-line which 
solves
 > the problem :)  Haven't dug into how to do this correctly yet though 
with
 > .povrayrc or something like that.
 >
 > Ken
 >
 > paul wrote:
 >
 >
 >>Hi folks, I am happy  to finally be able to actually write to this
 >>group, I am a Linux Convert! (from windows 2000, which is still on my
 >>drive, but used only bu my wife :-)
 >>
 >>Anyway, I have used pov for windows for eons. I just downloaded the new
 >>beta (RC4 I think) for linux and can't get the d%mn thing to work!
 >>
 >>After extractin the tar, I installed it "./install", as su. This put it
 >>in /usr/local/lib/povray-3.4.99.4
 >>
 >>Then added the environment variable
 >>"POVINI=/usr/local/lib/povray-3.4.99.4/" to /etc/profile (for BASH)
 >>
 >>then added the line
 >>"Library_Path=/usr/local/lib/povray-3.4.99.4/include" to povray.ini.
 >>
 >>Having done all this, nothing renders, well, nothing that relies on an
 >>include file. So POV is not seeing the include files, what else do I
 >>need to do?
 >>
 >>
 >>thanks
 >>
 >>paul
 >>
 >

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