[PLUG] POVray on Ubuntu Hardy

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 20:41:48 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens<rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> for the POVray tutorial. I installed POVray using the Synaptic Package
> Manager, but I get an error message when I try to go to the
> /usr/local/share/doc directory.

It's probably in /usr/share/doc/povray

IIRC, /usr/local is not supposed to be touched by the OS (and by
extension, Synaptic/apt), but if you're reading generic install
instructions, it is likely that they assume installation from a
tarball, and those are generally installed into /usr/local or /opt.

--Rogan

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