How to download and install the Povray tool for visualization

 

 

Povray (for more information click here ) is  a tool of visualization like Gnuplot 

Downloading

To download the tool we run the following command

git clone https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray.git

 

Compiling

Prerequisities

* g++ compiler

* automake

* autoconf

Required libraries

- Boost version 1.38 or above
  http://www.boost.org

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev     # for Ubuntu

- Zlib version 1.2.1 or above
  http://www.zlib.net

sudo apt install zlib1g-dev     # for Ubuntu     

- LibPNG version 1.2.5 or above
  http://www.libpng.org

sudo apt-get install libpng-dev     # for Ubuntu

- LibJPEG version 6b or above
  http://www.ijg.org

 sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev   # for Ubuntu             

- LibTIFF version 3.6.1 or above
  http://www.libtiff.org

sudo apt-get install -y libtiff-dev   # for Ubuntu                 

 To compile the tool we proceed as follows:

cd povray/
cd unix/
./prebuild.sh
cd..
./configure COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>"
make
sudo make install