I decided to see what damage I could do with the KPovModeler installed on Fedora Core 2, but when I went to render it, it complained that it couldn't find povray on my machine. "man povray" gives me nothing, and "yum search povray" gives me nothing.

Am I the only one who thinks it's odd to have a povray modelling front end automatically installed on a distribution, but not povray itself (and not even having a package available for it)?

There seem to be plenty of other distributions that have a povray package (according to places like rpm.pbone.net)..

Anyone know what's going on with that? Am I missing something?

Yeah, I thought it was pretty odd that my Debian system came up with KpovModeler, but not povray. Not sure why exactly, but there's no reason you shouldn't be able to pick up any povray RPM for redhat and install it (or install it from source if you're keen).

Actually, the older RPMs seem to have a dependency on XFree86, versus the installed X.org

What I ended up doing is downloading and installing from povray.org ( http://www.povray.org/download/ ). I was astonished at how easy it was!! (usually ./configure make make install has some hiccup or other when I try it, but their "install" script worked smoothly) I still would much prefer to have everything handled through package management for one place to look to uninstall, upgrade, etc.

Anyway, it's all fixed now, and I've done a few renders already..

Thanks for your reply.

Just for completeness - I thought I might mention that the POVRay product (while cool) is NOT GPL, or even OSS compatible. It is a commercial "Free for Personal Users" software package.

GAVollink: Actually, I appreciate you bringing that up.. I hadn't realized that, and it explains a lot.. Is there any relationship between you mentioning that today and kpovmodeler disappearing from my system after a yum update today (as per the other thread)? Quite a shock to have an "update" take away something I was using...

Wow - sorry I missed this for so long... the answer is maybe. If your kpovmodeler package had originally come with a previous version of a different/but related package, then the update of that package would delete any files that were from the previous package.