Installing Radiance in Ubuntu 7.10- Step-by-Step guide - 2nd Draft

Hi,

Thanks for your input. I have updated the guide with your recommended
procedure and a few more references. Kindly let me know if its OK.

There's a small thing to fix:

Bernds' Installation Routine
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Type the following steps as given by Bernd in Terminal to make a
backport of radiance
packages from Debian's Lenny/testing or Hardy (or upgrade to Hardy). Its
not tested but
hopefully should work:

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sudo apt-get install devscripts fakeroot build-essential
sudo apt-get install debhelper libtiff4-dev libx11-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
                         libxext-dev quilt tcsh docbook-to-man ed tk8.4

dget -x \
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/radiance/radiance_3R9+20080530-4.dsc

that source version is outdated, so you have to do the following steps:
- open http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/radiance/ in a browser, search
for the .dsc file with the highest version number, copy its url.
- use dget -x <url>, where <url> is the location of the .dsc file you've just
copied. In case dget complains about unknown signatures, use dget -xu - the
option is new and not available in old versions of dget.

cd radiance-3R9+20080530

Thats would become
cd radiance-<version>
(replace <version> by the version of the downloaded source - ls -l will show
you the right directory name)

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i radiance*.deb
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otherwise it should be fine.

Cheers,

Bernd

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