[PD] Install pd-extended on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 i686

[Ben Baker-Smith]

2010/2/12 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
> 2010/2/12 Ben Baker-Smith <bbakersmith at gmail.com>
>>
>> 2010/2/11 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
>> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Ben Baker-Smith <bbakersmith at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, there was a typo in my initial message, it should say "there is
>> >> no i686 package available".
>> >>
>> >> When I tried to install the Jaunty package I got a "wrong kernel type"
>> >> error. All the packages seem to be for i386 and lpia, while my machine
>> >> is running i686. The only mention of an i686 version that I have found
>> >> is for Karmic in the 02-10-10 nightly build (and it seems rather small
>> >> at 5.1M).
>> >>
>> >> When I tried adding adding to sources.list and installing via apt-get
>> >> I received the following error:
>> >> "Failed to fetch
>> >>
>> >> http://apt.puredata.info/releases/dists/jaunty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>> >> 404 Not Found"
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, I ended up installing pd vanilla, gem, and zexy seperately and
>> >> adding the appropriate paths in the file > startup menu.  Everything
>> >> is working just fine now.
>> >>
>> >> -Ben
>> >
>> > Hello Ben,
>> >
>> > I am on amd64 too, and my best recommendation is that you use the i386
>> > version. At the moment it is just faster and more stable than 64-bit
>> > builds.
>> > To set up an i386 package on your 64-bit Jaunty and satisfy all the
>> > 32-bit
>> > dependecies you'll most likely want to use getlibs:
>> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790
>> >
>> > Andras
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Thanks Andras, that sounds like just what I need.
>> I'll give it a shot this weekend after I fix a botched dist-upgrade.
>>
>> -Ben
>
> I just noticed there are more specifics at
> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/64BitLinux/ under "Method 2"
> (...you didn't mistakenly upgrade to Karmic did u? ;o) My girlfriend did
> that on her laptop and err... not so good! Been told however that it is less
> bad with the RT kernel -  a thing missing from Jaunty.)
> Andras
>

In fact.. that's exactly what happened (dist-upgrade from Jaunty to
Karmic). The sad thing is that this is the second machine I've tried
the upgrade on, and the second to fail. I was prepared this time,
backed everything up prior to the attempt, so it's more of an
annoyance than anything.

-Ben