[PD] Linux - which distribution to use?

bigswift at cox.net bigswift at cox.net
Sun Apr 22 15:43:02 CEST 2007


hello

i found getting pd running on Ubuntu EXTREMELY easy.

user may use synaptic package manager:


1.) search "Tk8.4", install Tk8.4 & Tk8.4-dev
2.) search "tcl8.4", install tcl8.4 & tcl8.4-dev
3.) search "alsa", install libalsaound-dev [libalsa is already installed]

download and untar pd-0.40-2

./configure --enable-alsa
make, make install

pp














---- Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Unfortuntaely, Pd on ubuntu isn't quite that easy to install yet.   
> But we are close.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Thomas Jeppesen wrote:
> 
> > I think I know where you are comming from ;)
> >
> > Thanks for the good and quick feedback I've gotten through the day.  
> > It has
> > helped me a lot.
> > I installed Ubuntu today and it worked like a charm. I follow the  
> > advice to
> > stick with it, at least for a few months :)
> >
> > Cheers all!
> > Thomas
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzierer at yahoo.de>
> > To: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
> > Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use?
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:06 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> >>> Hallo,
> >>> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> >>>>> Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but  
> >>>> sometimes much
> >>>> easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better
> >>>> maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>> Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was
> >>> running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff,
> >>> that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from  
> >>> Ubuntu to
> >>> Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to  
> >>> Debian. In
> >>> the end, it's a matter of taste.
> >>
> >> i don't want to be an ass and please don't get me wrong, when i hook
> >> into it again. i fully agree with you. i started doing linux with
> >> debian, too. though in the end, all problems i had turned out to be
> >> manageable (and based on my lack of knowledge), i wish i had started
> >> with ubuntu first retrospectively, just because you have to make less
> >> decisions in order to get a working box, that 'just works' in  
> >> everyday
> >> life. i dare say, that ubuntu is the most easy os to install at  
> >> all, not
> >> only the easiest linux.
> >> when starting with linux, i had to realize that i hardly know  
> >> anything
> >> about computers. i didn't even know, what a window manager is  
> >> (least of
> >> all, that also windows uses a window manager, but the fact that  
> >> windows
> >> tries to hide essential stuff from the user, so that he/she stays
> >> unaware about computers is anothe story) and that i was supposed to
> >> choose and install one, if i want to have a graphical interface.  
> >> quite
> >> many steps were involved, until i had a running pd.
> >> i believe, in ubuntu much lesser steps are needed until pd runs.  
> >> for a
> >> sligthly more advanced user, many steps seem to be obvious and are  
> >> done
> >> fast, but for an innocent, naked, virgin noob (sorry for the strange
> >> wording), like i was two and a half years ago, each step can be a  
> >> real
> >> pain.
> >> of course, at the end you don't have more or less possibilities in  
> >> one
> >> or the other.
> >>
> >> just my 4cents (now, i'm broke  :-)
> >>
> >> roman
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ___________________________________________________________
> >> Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo!  
> >> Mail:
> >> http://mail.yahoo.de
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ----------
> >
> >
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
> >>
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ----------
> >
> >
> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
> > Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.2.0/757 - Release Date:  
> > 11-04-2007
> > 17:14
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ 
> > listinfo/pd-list
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> ----
> 
> Using ReBirth is like trying to play an 808 with a long stick.    - 
> David Zicarelli
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

--
Patrick Pagano
Digital Media Specialist
University of Florida
Digital Worlds Institute
352-294-2082





More information about the Pd-list mailing list