Hi,
I'm new to radiance, and relatively new to linux (I've been running Debian
sarge (2.6 kernel) for a few months now). I recently installed the .deb
packages for radiance, but I'm having some problems with the oconv command.
For some reason bash can't find it. I followed the instructions for
installing the .deb files <a
href=http://www.dream.unipa.it/dream/pub/dot/anselmo/radiance/packages/>here
<a>, and did not see any mention of oconv. Is this a separate package I need
to install? Is there another PATH that needs to be set? Any help you could
offer would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave Maino
Hi David,
Welcome to the world of Radiance! From the base of the learning curve, it can seem like a long way to the top. I'm about 25% of the way up the slope and it was totally worth every grey hair. =8-)
I'm not familiar with debian (tho my friend keeps telling me to ditch Fedora and use Debian instead), but I'd assume that the .deb thingy is like an .rpm distro? Regardless, I'd bet that the problem is that the .deb installer is just not setting your PATH correctly, if at all.
Usually the Radiance binaries are installed to /usr/local/bin; probably the .deb installer placed all the binaries properly, but didn't set the PATH. As a test you could try typing /usr/local/bin/oconv instead of oconv (along with the rest of the command you intended). If that works, you can be sure that oconv is alive and well in the proper place, it's just that your "environment" doesn't know where to look for it. You need to set your PATH (search path) to look in the /usr/local/bin directory. There are actually a couple of search paths & variables that need to get set. The way you do this is add a few instructions to your .bash_profile file. Add these lines:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
RAYPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/ray
export PATH RAYPATH
... to your .bash_profile file (this is always located in your home directory), and you should be good to go. Let us know if you have trouble editing this file. I know what it's like to arrive at a bash prompt after years of using windows PCs or macs, and trying to do the most basic of tasks.
Hopefully this will get you up and running and on your way to Radiance enlightenment. Good luck, have fun, and report back on this frequency if you have more questions!
···
On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:42 PM, J. David Maino wrote:
I’m new to radiance, and relatively new to linux (I’ve been running Debian sarge (2.6 kernel) for a few months now). I recently installed the .deb packages for radiance, but I’m having some problems with the oconv command. For some reason bash can’t find it. I followed the instructions for installing the .deb files <a href=http://www.dream.unipa.it/dream/pub/dot/anselmo/radiance/packages/>here<a>, and did not see any mention of oconv. Is this a separate package I need to install? Is there another PATH that needs to be set? Any help you could offer would be appreciated.
=================
Rob Guglielmetti
www.rumblestrip.org
Thanks for the helpful info and the warm welcome! I had tried to export the
path before but it apparently didn't work for some reason (probably put a
colon in the wrong place or something, heh), so I did it again and it works
fine now.
On a side note, I would highly recommend Debian if you are thinking about
switching. I haven't had much experience with too many other distributions
(only RedHat and Mandrake), but I like Debian the best out of them, mostly
for it's package management system (to answer your question, yes, the deb
files are like rpms).
Thanks again,
Dave
···
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Guglielmetti
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:17 AM
To: Radiance general discussion
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] oconv question
On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:42 PM, J. David Maino wrote:
I'm new to radiance, and relatively new to linux (I've been running
Debian sarge (2.6 kernel) for a few months now). I recently installed
the .deb packages for radiance, but I'm having some problems with the
oconv command. For some reason bash can't find it. I followed the
instructions for installing the .deb files <a
href=http://www.dream.unipa.it/dream/pub/dot/anselmo/radiance/
packages/>here<a>, and did not see any mention of oconv. Is this a
separate package I need to install? Is there another PATH that needs
to be set? Any help you could offer would be appreciated.
Hi David,
Welcome to the world of Radiance! From the base of the learning curve,
it can seem like a long way to the top. I'm about 25% of the way up
the slope and it was totally worth every grey hair. =8-)
I'm not familiar with debian (tho my friend keeps telling me to ditch
Fedora and use Debian instead), but I'd assume that the .deb thingy is
like an .rpm distro? Regardless, I'd bet that the problem is that the
.deb installer is just not setting your PATH correctly, if at all.
Usually the Radiance binaries are installed to /usr/local/bin; probably
the .deb installer placed all the binaries properly, but didn't set the
PATH. As a test you could try typing /usr/local/bin/oconv instead of
oconv (along with the rest of the command you intended). If that
works, you can be sure that oconv is alive and well in the proper
place, it's just that your "environment" doesn't know where to look for
it. You need to set your PATH (search path) to look in the
/usr/local/bin directory. There are actually a couple of search paths
& variables that need to get set. The way you do this is add a few
instructions to your .bash_profile file. Add these lines:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
RAYPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/ray
export PATH RAYPATH
... to your .bash_profile file (this is always located in your home
directory), and you should be good to go. Let us know if you have
trouble editing this file. I know what it's like to arrive at a bash
prompt after years of using windows PCs or macs, and trying to do the
most basic of tasks.
Hopefully this will get you up and running and on your way to Radiance
enlightenment. Good luck, have fun, and report back on this frequency
if you have more questions!
=================
Rob Guglielmetti
www.rumblestrip.org
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