Re: [Fractint] Fractint version 20.4 patch 7

I just re-installed for the umpteenth time, and it all seems to work!

I found that I had been installing from "Desktop" instead of "home".
This time I corrected that, and started with the scrolling screen. I
was now able to use "t" to select a fractal type, draw a fractal
and zoom into it, all in polychrome.

I still had to go through the "sudo apt-get install xfractint" routine
in response to a "not installed" message. I didn't touch Makefile, but
I *did* edit out all references to other than xfractint in the
sstools.ini file, (if that makes any difference).

Thanks again,

John W.


On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:27 -0600, Jonathan Osuch wrote:
> John,
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>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to get that version of Xfractint
> (20.4-01) to find the sstools.ini file. One of the problems with the
> installation used by the Ubuntu distribution is that all the files get
> installed as the root user. This makes it difficult to change them.
> And, since Xfractint isn't being run as the root user, it won't be able
> to save files to the directories the installation created.
>
> I'll try again. I may have just not set the file permissions correctly.
>
> Jonathan