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  Re: PoV-Ray 3.7 installation revisited  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 21 Feb 2012 14:26:49
Message: <4f43eff9@news.povray.org>
Le 19/02/2012 02:41, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann nous fit lire :
> Hi(gh)!
> 
> On 12.02.2012 07:20, Warp wrote:
> 
>>    I'd say it's the opposite: Installing everything is much simpler than
>> trying to hand-pick whatever povray needs in particular.
> 
> After re-installing Debian aptosid "Imera" and doing a full apt-get
> dist-upgrade, I'm once more quite clueless how to proceed with PoV-Ray
> 3.7 RC3... meanwhile, aptosid's handling of the boost packages seems to
> have changed - when I try apt-get install boost* now, I get a long list
> of packages conflicting with already installed "46" versions of them:
> 
> 
> How should I proceed now?
> 

Install the meta-package for 1.46 or 1.48, not both.

Details for an Ubuntu (without io restrictons, personal taste):

> From a fresh install of Ubuntu (11.10, Oneiric Oslo)
> 
>     Install (with all dependencies):
>         g++
>         libboost-all-dev
>         libpng12-dev
>         libjpeg62-dev
>         libtiff4-dev
>         libopenexr-dev
>         libsdl1.2-dev 
>     Get the sources (wget
http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/beta/source/povray-3.7.0.RC4.tar.gz )
>     Extract them (tar -xzf povray-3.7.0.RC4.tar.gz )
>     Enter directory (cd povray-3.7.0.RC4 )
>     Configure ( ./configure COMPILED_BY="Grimbert Jérôme <jgr### [at] freefr>"
--disable-io-restrictions )
>     Build (make -j 12 )
>     Check (make check )
>     Install (sudo make install )
>     Get back ownership of your .povray subtree ( sudo chown -R jerome:jerome
~/.povray )


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