povray installation ( post #1)



Hi ! I'm new to Linux and I don't know anybody who knows how to use it properly. I have a problem with the installation of pov-ray. I'm using Linux mandrake 9.1 and i downloaded the pov-ray driver at the site of povray: povray.org or something like that, but I can't understand the installation readme file at all. They say I have to edit a file /src/obtout.h but I can't find it .I can't even find the "src" folder. Is it really important ? Then they say I must run ./configure in the folder of the file, but as I didn't find it, I can't. I tried to see if it wasn't an uninstalled package, but it doesn't look so. Please help me, and if you do, can you talk easily, cause I don't understand well english.

Long life to Linux.

Thanks for your help.

vic

It looks you downloaded the source package. In my opinion it would be much easier with binary one: you just need to unpack it and run installation script:
tar xvfz povlinux.tgz
cd povray35
./install

You can download it from here: http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.p...x/povlinux.tgz

Thanks a lot !! I know I should'nt have reported my post to you, but nobody answered it. I'll go answer other questions , but is there anything I can do to help, like clicking on a commercial ?

See you

vic

Rather not Don't report your own posts in the future - you may make a mod angry 9not me, but it's possible ).

Thanks but I've still got one question :
How can I launch the software ,
Cause I'm able to use it with K Pov Modeler, but I don't know how to launch the actual graphical interface.

Thanks

vic


Long life to Linux

I think that you can try this: open a terminal and then type
kpov
It should start. If it works, create a shortcut in the panel or in the menus (or both).

Thanks, but it doesn't work. Anyway I'm not trying to launch kpov modeler but povray.

See you

vic

Long life to linux