From the newbie leading newbie files...

After following Steve's installation steps I also had to (still as su) copy 
the povray's ini file to a location povray expects it to be...

# cp /usr/local/lib/povray-3.5/ini/povray.ini 
/usr/local/lib/povray-3.5/povray.ini

(note: that's a single line) and exited su mode.

Then with a browser opened the manual at
file:///usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.5/html/index.html
and followed "Tutorials|beginner's tutorial|Our First Image" for creating a 
"test.pov" file.

Next, at a console, issued the command
$ povray test.pov
which created the file test.png (what a lovely yellow sphere!)

HTH

Steve wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:08:18 +0200, Erik Hallsten wrote:
> 
> 
> First you'll need to unpack the file with something like:
> 
> $ tar -xzvf powlinux.tgz 
> $ cd povlinux35
> $ su
> (enter root's password)
> # ./install

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