413. Povray 3.7-rc7 on debian wheezy

Update 15/5/2013: Seems like povray has been removed from debian! http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=povray This means it's even safer to remove libjpeg62

Original post:
The latest beta version of povray, povray 3.7-rc7 will only build if you don't have libjpeg62 installed. Luckily, not much seems to rely on libjpeg62 anymore other than the debian version of povray.

If you want both the debian version and this version of povray installed at the same time, use a chroot environment to build.

The main reason for wanting to build your own povray 3.7 is that it supports parallel processing and so can speed up rendering significantly.

Note: you can compile povray 3.6 using the same instructions. Download it from here: http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Official/Unix/povray-3.6.tar.bz2

Building povray 3.7-rc7
sudo mkdir /opt/povray

sudo chown $USER /opt/povray 

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
sudo apt-get autoremove libjpeg62
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libtiff-dev build-essential checkinstall libsdl-dev

wget http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/beta/source/povray-3.7.0.RC7.tar.bz2
tar xvf povray-3.7.0.RC7.tar.bz2
cd povray-3.7.0.RC7/
./configure --prefix=/opt/povray --program-suffix=_3.7 COMPILED_BY="me@here
make 
sudo checkinstall

0 -  Maintainer: [ root@boron ]
1 -  Summary: [ povray 3.7-rc7 ]
2 -  Name:    [ povray ]
3 -  Version: [ 3.7.0.RC7 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 -  Source location: [ povray-3.7.0.RC7 ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ povray ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/povray/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

And that's it. Note that we added a suffix to the binary, so you'll have to call it with 'povray_3.7' instead of just 'povray'.