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From: Basiclife
Subject: FreeBSD Installation
Date: 15 Nov 2006 15:00:01
Message: <web.455b719694010a57a4c94b1b0@news.povray.org>
Hi all, I've just got POVRay on my PC and I love it. I want to use it as a
scheduled job on my webserver. The server runs:

FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE

now I'mnew-ish to linux. I can cd, grep, ls, cat, vi, etc... but that's
pretty much the limit also, I've always used redhat so I'm not good on this
system :S

That aside, would someone please point me in the direction of a) a tarball
or similar that I can use for this OS and b) explain how to install it as a
NON-root user.

I believe it SHOULD be possible to install without being root, merely that
it outputs to some folders requiring root access.

Many thanks in advance.


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From: ingo
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation
Date: 16 Nov 2006 10:03:35
Message: <Xns987DA35E4ED4Cseed7@news.povray.org>
in news:web.455b719694010a57a4c94b1b0@news.povray.org Basiclife wrote:

> That aside, would someone please point me in the direction of a) a
> tarball or similar that I can use for this OS and b) explain how to
> install it as a NON-root user.
> 

Read up on FreeBSD's packages & ports collections and the pkg_... 
commands.

Ingo


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From: Basiclife
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation
Date: 2 Dec 2006 12:55:00
Message: <web.4571b0e152a5e48a4c94b1b0@news.povray.org>
ingo <ing### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> in news:web.455b719694010a57a4c94b1b0@news.povray.org Basiclife wrote:
>
> > That aside, would someone please point me in the direction of a) a
> > tarball or similar that I can use for this OS and b) explain how to
> > install it as a NON-root user.
> >
>
> Read up on FreeBSD's packages & ports collections and the pkg_...
> commands.
>
> Ingo

Very sorry for the long delay in replying. Will do so. Thank you!


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