Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
>> There is no official POV-Ray 3.6 installed on this computer.
> 
> Okay, I guess I"m using the ubuntu repository version rather than the one
> from the povray site.  It is much more advisable to get it with a package
> installer than to roll your own, unless you know what you're doing.  After
> several years of linux tinkering, I still don't.
> 

Greg, it's not that difficult nor dangerous to compile your own executable, 
at least with POV-Ray. I do it for all my computers since version 3.5. In 
fact I think that I never downloaded the binaries for 3.6, just the sources.

Casually, I just changed from Fedora Core 6 to Ubuntu 7.10, and I just 
restored /usr/local/src/povray-3.6.1 from the backup, then made a "make 
clean" just in case, and then compiled it with:

   ./configure COMPILED_BY="Your name and address" --disable-io-restrictions

Just remember to install first the basic developer packages, and make sure 
to install libX11-devel or you will not get a display...


--
Jaime

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