symbolic links

[coa]

sometimes when im extracting a file I get the error file system does not support symbolic links

can this be fixed.

[Ed_P]

Extract your file to /tmp.

[coa]

thanks ed for the solution info!

im installing blender newest

i try to create module from the blender dir but when i activate it there is no blender link in the start menu

does anyone know what is wrong or what i can do to try to make it work

[ncmprhnsbl]

i try to create module from the blender dir but when i activate it there is no blender link in the start menu

does anyone know what is wrong or what i can do to try to make it work

assuming you are using the official blender prebuilt tarball... it requires some tweaking ..ie. just directly making a module directly from the extracted tarball doesn't result in something the system knows how to deal with..
take a look at : blender module build script
i havn't tested the script lately, so can't say whether it's still working.. (when i get time i'll have a look at it and update it if necessary)
but the basics of it remain the same: (use root for all these)
1. create a folder (in tmp as root): blender-module, in it create another: opt
2. extract the blender tarball to /tmp/blender-module/opt (or move the extracted folder there)
3. create directories: /tmp/blender-module/usr/share/applications and /tmp/blender-module/usr/bin
4. move : /tmp/blender-module/opt/blender-<version>/<version>/blender.desktop to /tmp/blender-module/usr/share/applications/
5. link : /tmp/blender-module/opt/blender-<version>/<version>/blender to /tmp/blender-module/usr/bin/blender ( cd /tmp/blender-module/usr/bin/ && ln -s ../../opt/blender-<version>/<version>/blender blender )
6. make a module of /tmp/blender-module ( dir2xzm /tmp/blender-module blender-<version>.xzm )

[coa]

thanks for your reply ncmprhnsbl and for the info
this is complicated stuff i will maybe try it someday
for now i will just run it normally from the dir