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Povray linux, how?
hi,
im using ubuntu dapper (6.06),
installed povray 3.6
and i have no idea how to make it render

i know its a command line only app on unix systems
i've read the "man povray" file, didnt get any of it
i've read the error output, im lost
I'm quite a noob with commandlines :/
so, my question is:
"what command do i need?"

ilia@ilia-desktop:~$ povray -/home/ilia/Desktop/toribash-linux-2.22/raytrace/screenshot-14-10-04-18.pov -test.JPEG
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (g++ 3.4.1 @
 i686-pc-linux-gnu)
This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team. See the
 documentation on how to contact the authors or visit us on the
 internet at http://www.povray.org/.
POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.5/3.6 Developers: (Alphabetically)
 Chris Cason     Thorsten Froehlich Nathan Kopp     Ron Parker

Contributing Authors: (Alphabetically)
 Steve Anger     Eric Barish     Dieter Bayer    Steve A. Bennett
 David K. Buck    Nicolas Calimet   Aaron A. Collins  Chris Dailey
 Steve Demlow    Andreas Dilger   Alexander Enzmann  Dan Farmer
 Mark Gordon     Christoph Hormann  Mike Hough     Chris Huff
 Kari Kivisalo    Lutz Kretzschmar  Jochen Lippert   Pascal Massimino
 Jim McElhiney    Douglas Muir    Juha Nieminen    Bill Pulver
 Eduard Schwan    Wlodzimierz Skiba  Robert Skinner   Yvo Smellenbergh
 Zsolt Szalavari   Scott Taylor    Massimo Valentini  Timothy Wegner
 Drew Wells     Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
 ZLib 1.2.1, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
 LibPNG 1.2.5, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
 LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
 LibTIFF 3.6.1, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
Redirecting Options
 All Streams to console..........On
 Debug Stream to console.........On
 Fatal Stream to console.........On
 Render Stream to console........On
 Statistics Stream to console....On
 Warning Stream to console.......On
Parsing Options
 Input file: OBJECT.POV (compatible to version 3.61)
 Remove bounds........On
 Split unions.........Off
 Library paths:
  /home/ilia/povray//share/povray-3.6
  /home/ilia/povray//share/povray-3.6/ini
  /home/ilia/povray//share/povray-3.6/include
  /usr/local/share/povray-3.6
  /usr/local/share/povray-3.6/ini
  /usr/local/share/povray-3.6/include
Output Options
 Image resolution 320 by 240 (rows 1 to 240, columns 1 to 320).
 Output file: /home/ilia/OBJECT.png, 24 bpp PNG
 Graphic display......On (gamma: 2.2)
 Mosaic preview.......Off
 CPU usage histogram..Off
 Continued trace......Off
Tracing Options
 Quality: 9
 Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 3
 Light Buffer.........On
 Vista Buffer.........On  Draw Vista Buffer....Off
 Antialiasing.........Off
 Clock value:  0.000 (Animation off)

 0:00:00 Parsing
Possible Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Could not find file
 'OBJECT.POV'
Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Cannot open input file.
Total Scene Processing Times
 Parse Time:  0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
 Photon Time:  0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
 Render Time:  0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
 Total Time:  0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)