On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:19:04 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> I have just installed POV-Ray 3.6 for Linux.  When I try to do the KDE
> integration, I get the message:
> ______________________________________________________
> 
> POV-Ray 3.6 installation ==========================
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> installing KDE integration for user 'ricky'...
> could not determine user KDEHOME directory.
> make sure KDE is correctly installed
> ______________________________________________________
> 
> As far as I can tell, KDE is working fine.  The POV-Ray test run ran
> fine,
> although the output window was strangely transparent.
> 
> OS: openSUSE Linux 12.1 Hardware: HP Pavilion dv5030us Notebook PC (32
> bits, as far as I'm aware)

In a terminal window, what do you get if you execute:

echo $KDEHOME

?

Just a guess, but it looks like POVRay may be trying to use that to 
determine the user's home directory.  (Not a KDE user myself so I don't 
know that that's what KDEHOME is supposed to be, but it seems a 
reasonable guess).

Jim

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