Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

Mairin did you manage to get Blender running?

Cheers,
Valent.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
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