[Radiance-general] trouble in installing radiance on ubuntu 8.03-a new user

[Ilya A. Zimnovich]

Hello,

I would suggest to use 'radiance' and 'radiance-materials' packages from
ubuntu repository.
On Ubuntu, use this command: sudo apt-get install radiance
radiance-materials

Hope this will help :

qiuzhongzhu at shiep.edu.cn wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am new not only for radiance but also for Ubuntu.
> 
> I tried to install radiance on ubuntu8.03 as following steps,
> 
> (i) downloaded and installed the ubuntu8.03, and I think it should work well.
> 
> (ii) download the "rad3R9_linux.tar.gz" from
> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/framed.html and copy to
> /home/myname/rad3R9_linux.tar.gz
> 
> (iii) in the ubuntu8.03, use "su" to "root", and decoppress the
> rad3R9_linux.tar.gz with "tar -xzvf rad3R9_linux.tar.gz", then generate a new
> folder "rad3R9_linux" in /home/myname/, and there are a lot of files in that
> new folder.
> 
> (iv) exit root, use "cd  " to /home/myname/rad3R9_linux,then su to root, and
> according to the readme file, use ./makeall install, but it always didn't work
> and tell me"./makeall command not found"
> 
> could anyone give me a hand?
> 
> thank you in advance.
> 
> Ragards,
> ZZ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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