Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

2011/1/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi Valent,
>
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, valent.turkovic at gmail.com 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 at Brigid linux2]$ pwd
> /home/duffy/Repositories/blender-build/install/linux2
> [duffy at 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.