Some more explanations:

> "povray: cannot open the system configuration file
> /usr/local/etc/povray/3.6/povray.conf: No such file or directory"

	In the precompiled PC-Linux binary (which is the one you are
installing) the /usr/local/etc/povray/3.6 path is a povray system path
that is hardcoded in the program and therefore cannot be changed by
the installation procedure (the povray executable cannot be modified
by the install script).  Yet the install script creates the povray
system directory: by default (ie installing as root) it matches
the one above; in the case of an user install it doesn't, and the
system directory you get (/usr/me/povray-3.6/etc/povray/3.6) is in
fact not used at all.  What is always used though are the equivalent
user-level files placed under $HOME/.povray/3.6 .

	As mentionned elsewhere, this is expected and essentially
harmless.  This message should only disappear if you install povray
as root (or compile the program from sources).

	- NC

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