Feature request: Compatibility with Megapov

[pterandon]

http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html

Hello. If one gets povray 3.6 from the package manager in ubuntu, it works great. If however one wants to install the "Megapov" patched version of povray, there is a problem. Megapov is not in the ubuntu package management system that I can see with Adept. Getting Megapov involves downloading a compressed file directly from the Megapov site, and then running an installer. When one tries this, one gets an error message saying that povray is not installed. I believe that the megapov installer is looking for file X in directory Y.

My belief is that the individual choices made by the person who set up the ubuntu installer and the megapov installer conflict. (I'm sure both are "logical" choices, they're just incompatible.) I suspect that the Megapov installer works great with SUSE but not with ubuntu.

Request (not a bug!)
i) put a working Megapov package on the ubuntu package installer thingy.
ii) change the choice of directories in the ubuntu installer to be in tune with the choices of the Megapov installer.

Thanks.
Grand apologies if it is a breach of etiquette to put a feature request in the bug reporting system. But I am at a loss of functionality. thanks.

[Macs (hayden-macdonald)]

This isn't too hard.
Frustrating that it doesn't work out of the box tho :) A quick look into the install file yields the answer: script is pointing to the wrong paths...

I have supplied a patch which works for me on ubuntu 9.04 with povray package installed(3.6.1) trying to install megapov-1.2.1
It simply modifies the expected install paths, and changes the shell to bash(because in my installation, /bin/sh is dash, and it doesn't handle read -n)

Instructions: simply download the megapov "linux installer", patch it, and run the install.
ie.

tar xf megapov-1.2.1-linux.tar.bz2
cd megapov-1.2.1
patch < ../ubuntu9.04_megapov_install_patch_fixed.diff
sudo ./install

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

The easier way to solve would be to perhaps package megapov in debian.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Closing since this package was removed long ago.