Hi,
I am a newbi whith Linux... I dl the povray gzip file, converted to tar
and decompressed... but I don't no how install it...

Somobody can help me... an explain the instalation step by step...

Thank you

Excuse my english I am french

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root wrote:

Almighty root, I bow before your power...

Assuming you have the binary package (povlinux.tgz), this will create a
directory called "povray31" when uncompressed.  Then do the following
("$" represents a normal shell prompt, and # represents a root shell
prompt, assuming you normally use a regular user account):  

$ cd povray31
$ cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
$ su
Password:
# ./install
# exit

That should suffice.  If you have any other questions, let me know.

-Mark Gordon

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root wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am a newbi whith Linux... I dl the povray gzip file, converted to tar
> and decompressed... but I don't no how install it...
> 
> Somobody can help me... an explain the instalation step by step...
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Excuse my english I am french

Installation isn't really needed you can use s-povray and x-povray
directly from the directory povray31. Under X: start a terminal and go
to povray31. start povray with ./x-povray -I yourfile.pov.
You have to create a .povrayrc in your homedirectory to make povray to
know where to look for the include files. You can use the file
povray.ini as an example.

Remco Poelstra

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Mark Gordon wrote:

> root wrote:
>
> Almighty root, I bow before your power...
>
> Assuming you have the binary package (povlinux.tgz), this will create a
> directory called "povray31" when uncompressed.  Then do the following
> ("$" represents a normal shell prompt, and # represents a root shell
> prompt, assuming you normally use a regular user account):
>
> $ cd povray31
> $ cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
> $ su
> Password:
> # ./install
> # exit
>
> That should suffice.  If you have any other questions, let me know.
>
> -Mark Gordon

[root@modemcable021 povray31]# cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
[root@modemcable021 povray31]# ./install

type                               / This is no file or directory found in


french



This is wahat I do...

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Hi,
sounds like your missing the /usr/local tree completely.

mkdirhier /usr/local/bin

and then try again.

Oh, before you do that:
Create a user account, and use that for your everyday work, like news.

Axel

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root wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am a newbi whith Linux... I dl the povray gzip file, converted to tar
> and decompressed... but I don't no how install it...
> 
> Somobody can help me... an explain the instalation step by step...
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Excuse my english I am french

	Your english may be your problem. The install directions are in
what you downloaded. Do not try to make sense of the english,
imitate the command lines in that file. Being a native english
speaker, that is what I did, pardons to the creator of the
directions. 

	Now if you were from from Windows, read the man page and only
execute a name.INI file as in x-povray name.INI 

	And if this is not clear, my pardons, I am six months into linux
and 30 hours into running povray on linux. 

	It is worth your effort. I have run some of my old scenes from
Win98 and they run in about the same time except that I run
seti@home full time. So povray gets only half the CPU time. That
means, twice as fast as windows. 

-- 
Meaningless Adjectives Department
Proud warriors; vibrant culture; stupid liberal;
	-- The Iron Webmaster, 38

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root wrote:
> 
> Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> > root wrote:
> >
> > Almighty root, I bow before your power...
> >
> > Assuming you have the binary package (povlinux.tgz), this will create a
> > directory called "povray31" when uncompressed.  Then do the following
> > ("$" represents a normal shell prompt, and # represents a root shell
> > prompt, assuming you normally use a regular user account):
> >
> > $ cd povray31
> > $ cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
> > $ su
> > Password:
> > # ./install
> > # exit
> >
> > That should suffice.  If you have any other questions, let me know.
> >
> > -Mark Gordon
> 
> [root@modemcable021 povray31]# cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
> [root@modemcable021 povray31]# ./install

> type                               / This is no file or directory found in
> 
> french


> 
> This is wahat I do...

	Also in the .ini file specify the full path to the .inc files.
It does not like ~/povray/include but insists upon the full path.
Were I the king, any includes in the name.POV would default to
wherever 

make install 

	put them but it does not appear to do that. 

	Only six months in linux so don't belive a word of this message. 

-- 
Pat Buchanan or the American Empire of Earth.
The choice is yours. 
	-- The Iron Webmaster, 43

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Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
> root wrote:
> >
> > Mark Gordon wrote:
> >
> > > root wrote:
> > >
> > > Almighty root, I bow before your power...
> > >
> > > Assuming you have the binary package (povlinux.tgz), this will create a
> > > directory called "povray31" when uncompressed.  Then do the following
> > > ("$" represents a normal shell prompt, and # represents a root shell
> > > prompt, assuming you normally use a regular user account):
> > >
> > > $ cd povray31
> > > $ cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
> > > $ su
> > > Password:
> > > # ./install
> > > # exit
> > >
> > > That should suffice.  If you have any other questions, let me know.
> > >
> > > -Mark Gordon
> >
> > [root@modemcable021 povray31]# cp povray.ini ~/.povrayrc
> > [root@modemcable021 povray31]# ./install

> > type                               / This is no file or directory found in
> >
> > french


> >
> > This is wahat I do...
> 
>         Also in the .ini file specify the full path to the .inc files.
> It does not like ~/povray/include but insists upon the full path.

I'm only using ~ in an argument to cp, which ought to work fine from a $
prompt in Linux (since Linux defaults to bash, which supports ~, and
someone would have to work very hard to get vanilla Bourne shell in
Linux).  Since POV-Ray isn't a shell, it does want full paths in the
configuration files.

> Were I the king, any includes in the name.POV would default to
> wherever
> 
> make install
> 
>         put them but it does not appear to do that.

The problem is that I typically have foo.inc and foo.pov (both of which
I wrote myself) in ~/povstuff/foo.  Most users won't have write access
to /usr/local/lib/povray31, which is where stuff gets installed.

-Mark Gordon

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