. Over time I have ignored discussions here about xfractint since it didnt apply. After dabbling on and off for many years I have finally decided to get serious about Linux since the lab instruments I use every day at work [which cost more than my condo] run off Linux. I chose Fedora since that is the distro most often used. This ain't your daddy's Linux! It installed smoothly, and everything was up and running the 1st time I booted in. Including internet and audio, which is often the most difficult thing with windoze and usually the last I get running. I am currently learning my way around it, especially the command line. There are a few issues, most irritatingly, I can not access some folders and install some software, as Linux complains I don't have "root access". I am trying to figure that out. I assume since I installed it and I am the only singular user, I would have full access by default. What / Who would be higher than me, except God? Anyway, I want to give Xfractint a try. So the queshun is - can someone point me to the most recent distribution, and if needed, installation instructions? . JoTz [from Fedora21] .
On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 18:14 +0000, JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net wrote:
Anyway, I want to give Xfractint a try. So the queshun is - can someone point me to the most recent distribution, and if needed, installation instructions?
The latest "stable" version is xfractint-20.04p12. I screwed up the formula parser in patch 13, so don't use it. I have a fix, but then found additional problems when I implemented the savetime function. The source can be found at: http://www.fractint.org/ftp/current/linux/ Download the source tarball (for example: xfractint-20.4p12.tar.gz), put it in your home directory, and untar it with the command: tar -xzf xfractint-20.4p12.tar.gz This will create the directory xfractint-20.4p12 containing the source. You might want to change the directory name to xfractint for convenience. You will need to have gcc installed. You also need the XFree86-libs package installed for the X11 libraries. This package should already be installed, but if it isn't and your distribution doesn't have it, then you need the XFree86-devel package. Also needed is the libxft-dev package. The Makefile is set up for my convenience, so if you want to put files in different directories, you will need to change the SRCDIR setting. Otherwise, just run "make" from the source directory and it should compile. Run ./xfractint to start it up. Or, run "make install" to be able to run xfractint from anywhere. Let me know if you have any problems. Jonathan
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