From kpovmodeler-devel  Tue Sep 06 17:36:38 2005
From: Andreas Zehender <az () azweb ! de>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:36:38 +0000
To: kpovmodeler-devel
Subject: Re: Kpovmodeler for Fedora Core 3 & 4 users, and others.
Message-Id: <431DD3A6.40207 () azweb ! de>
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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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