[PLUG] POVray on Ubuntu Hardy

wes plug at the-wes.com
Thu Jul 9 20:44:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Carlos Konstanski <
ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:19:31 -0700
> > From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;    civil and on-topic"
> >     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > To: PLUG List <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > Subject: [PLUG] POVray on Ubuntu Hardy
> >
> > Can someone point me to where the tutorial is put on Hardy?
> >
> > The Googling I've done says to look in
> >
> > /usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.6/html
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dick Steffens
> > www.dicksteffens.com
>
> An error?  That could be a lot of things.  What is the output if you
> run this:
>
>   ls -ld /usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.6/html
>
> Do you see this message:
>
>   ls: cannot access html: No such file or directory
>
> Or does something else happen?  Either the folder does not exist, or
> you don't have permissions to it.  A folder must have the execute bit
> set in order to enter it.  The permissions problem could be in a
> higher-level folder, like /usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.6,
> /usr/local/share/doc, etc.  Any folder you cannot enter will hose all
> others under it.
>
> Isn't there an apt command you can use to list the files in a package?
> Someone else will have to jump in here.  Or synaptic will let you
> click your way to it.
>
> Carlos
>


Also try:

find / -name "*povray*" | grep -i html

that should give you some hints :)

-wes



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