Mairin did you manage to get Blender running? Cheers, Valent. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx > <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2011/1/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Hi Valent, >>> >>> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> Hi galls and guys, >>>> I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender >>>> 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this >>>> blog post: >>>> http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version: >>>> http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-13-and-fedora-14/ >>>> >>>> I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any >>>> feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in >>>> instructions. >>> >>> I followed your instructions but the resulting binary doesn't work. >>> >>> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ pwd >>> /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2 >>> [duffy@Brigid linux2]$ ./blender >>> Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found. >>> found bundled >>> python: /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python >>> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams >>> ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8 >>> Aborted (core dumped) >>> >>> I tried to post this in your blog but your blog gave me an error message >>> that it was not accepting POST requests. >>> >>> ~m >> >> I'll check my blog for any issues... >> >> I'll test it right now on clean Fedora 14. Could be I had some package >> preinstalled on my system and ommited it from dependencies in >> instructions. >> >> Valent. >> > > Hi Mairin, > I checked the instuctions so that I made a pristine enviroment via > Fedora 14 Live USB with persistant memory. I installed all > dependencies on this clean system (but without any updates since > Fedora 14 release), then downloaded Blender source files and tried to > compile and run it. > > I found only two missing dependencies, gettext and gettext-devel. > After those dependencies were installed Blender compiled without > errors and starts ok. > > I get this message when I start Blender: > > $ ./blender > Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found. > found bundled python: /home/liveuser/blender-build/install/linux2/2.56/python > > > Are you running Fedora 14? Have you made some tweaks to your system? > > Hope this helps. > > Valent. > > -- > pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt > blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com > linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće, zwave > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx > -- follow me - www.twitter.com/valentt & http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, wireless, scuba, linuxmce smart home, zwave ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines