Re: Kpovmodeler for Fedora Core 3 & 4 users, and others.

Hi,

sorry for the late answer, I was on hollidays :D
I will make a new source release, that's already fixed in cvs. Didn't =

know that people still need source releases as I thought all =

distributions provide packages for the whole kdegraphics package.

Thomasso Bartholomew Garcieass schrieb:

>
> Yes, I'm one of those Fedora Core 3 suffers whom after upgrading from =

> FC 3 because of the newer kernels and better security, was frustrated =

> by not having a GUI modeller for PovRay. I really like the =

> Kpovmodeler, and being more of an artist rather than a computer =

> scientist, I went months without Kpov!   So I'm very happy to say that =

> I finely got it up and running while using FC 3!!!!!!!
>
> My issues:
>
> I had the same problems as Ken and Anreas did, first I downloaded the =

> SRC Kpovmodeler 1.+ and got the same error: asking for freetype2. =

> After installing freetype2 and hours of configuring and =

> make-installing, nothing until I read this Email list. Anreas, if you =

> could somehow post that patch on a website, maybe this one, that would =

> be great *hint-hint*.
>
>*****
>> /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:24:2: #error "  #include =

>> FT_FREETYPE_H"
>*****
>
>  =

>
> However, I followed the 4 point instructions that William K. Volkman =

> post in the Aug. 23, 2005 Dealing with FC 4. They seem to work well =

> for FC 3 also, but there needs to be some clarity on the 4th and final =

> step that he posted there? So I want to add what I did  to get Kpov up =

> and running.
>
> Once RPMBUILD was finished, which took about 70mins to complete, I =

> found I had no idea where the new RPM was located, or if it was a RPM =

> I was looking for? So just out of curiosity, I looked around the =

> /usr/src/redhat/ directory and there it was: a nice and neat folder in =

> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/ or /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kdegraphics-3.4.0/ . I =

> simply ./configure and make install (which was super fast BTW) and =

> presto! I'm a happy Kpovmodeler user again. Everything seems to be =

> working fine.
>
> Could these steps be posted on the website too, "as known issues" or =

> something?
>
> Thanks for a great piece of software!
>
> Thomasso B.G.
>
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