I'm surprised (and disappointed) to see that the classic ray-tracing program povray has been dropped from the repositories on 12.04. What is the best way to install it? It doesn't appear that anyone has prepared a PPA for precise.
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POV-Ray is now released under the Affero GPL, so it will probably return to the repositories within a few releases.– Mechanical snailNov 14, 2013 at 19:27
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licensing
From the povray distribution license is not a GPL2+ or 3+ license that normally is the requirement for incorporation into the main ubuntu repositories.
Indeed - debian classify this as non-free - although why this package was not made available into multiverse, I'm not sure.
compiling
It's actually very simple to compile this command line application from source:
First install some prerequisites:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Now download the source-code:
wget http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Official/Unix/povray-3.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf povray-3.6.tar.gz
cd povray-3.6.1
Now configure it:
./configure COMPILED_BY="yourname <[email protected]>"
N.B. use your email address.
Next - compile and install:
make
sudo make install
for the uninitiated...
This is an example output
save the contents from here as povpawn.pov
Now run povray
povray +Ipovpawn.pov
This will create a file in your folder called povpawn.png
More information from the povray website:
answered Jun 26, 2012 at 22:11
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unfortunately, this won't work anymore because the archive is no longer hosted at povray.org - look at the github answer below. Mar 31, 2014 at 18:33
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1@CatherineHolloway: The old version is still available, the URL is povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Old-Versions/…. It's already compiled and should work out of the box. Use the contained
installcommand (viasudo) to install it. Jun 17, 2014 at 21:25
You can get the newest POV-Ray version from github:
Get the source code
git clone https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray.git
Install required packages
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libtiff5-dev libopenexr-dev
Configure, Make, Install
cd unix/
./prebuild.sh
cd ../
./configure COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>"
make
sudo make install
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2On 14.04 64bit, I ran
./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu COMPILED_BY="my name <my-email-address>"– knbMay 4, 2014 at 10:59 -
1For those who are having boost thread issues when running
./configure:sudo apt-get install libboost-all-devMay 24, 2014 at 0:53
I followed the instruction on the POv-Ray website, and did not encounter much problems during installation.
