Blender + DrQueue

DrQueue the Distributed Render Queue Manager
is a powerful open source distributed render farm manager, used for a range of applications across the visual effects industry and for general batch processing jobs in science, engineering and finance. DrQueue is licensed under GNU GPL Version 3.

installing on Ubuntu "karmic" 9.10:

i already had scons and build-essentials installed, but make sure you got these:

scons libgtk2.0-dev g++ python gcc samba (only for the master, on slave machines 'smbfs' will do)

to use the python modules we'll also need: 

 python-setuptools swig python-sip4-dev

get the drqueue sources
-> http://www.drqueue.org/cwebsite/get_drqueue.php

or

svn co https://ssl.drqueue.org/svn/trunk drqueue-trunk

I've chosen /opt/drqueue as an install path, so I compiled like this:

sudo scons PREFIX=/opt install

(NOTE: make sure you remove scons.conf or the definition of DESTDIR inside it to prevent unwanted install paths.)

to install the python modules run this from within python/

sudo python setup.py install

edit /opt/drqueue/etc/*.conf and make sure all paths point to where you installed drqueue

simple test scenario:

export DRQUEUE_ROOT=/opt/drqueue
export DRQUEUE_MASTER=localhost (change this to your hostname or IP)
/opt/drqueue/bin/master
/opt/drqueue/bin/slave
/opt/drqueue/bin/drqman