[PD] Deken install path & permissions on Debian

[Julian Brooks]

Just for clarification.

I made a /home/julian/.local/lib/pd/extra/ directory, clicked on a lib via
deken, dl'd it, and all works lovely
(apart from having libs scattered across my computer:)

Julian

On 7 April 2017 at 23:45, Julian Brooks <jbeezez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies IOhannes, I was a little hasty with my celebrations.
>
> After installing the pd-deken packages I still get this from Pd when
> attempting to install a lib:
> "No writeable directory found in:
>     - /home/julian/.local/lib/pd/extra/
>     - /home/julian/pd-externals
>     - /usr/local/lib/pd-externals
>     - /usr/lib/puredata/extra
>     - /usr/lib/pd/extra
> Cannot download/install libraries!"
>
> Pd-0.47.1 ("") compiled for Debian (0.47.1-3)
> Debian Sid (up to date)
>
> Hi Alexandre, well for me the folders already created (/usr/lib/pd/extra)
> by the Debian Pd install, it's getting the libs in there that's the current
> issue.
> But yes, which folder that should definitively be is still also up for
> debate I guess.
>
> Julian
>
>
>
> On 7 April 2017 at 17:13, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > Brilliant that deken can sort all this very soon
>>
>> maybe for linux? how is it? you cant write externals in the application
>> specific folder so it'll offer that one and write it?
>>
>> since you can write externals in the application specific folder in mac,
>> it won't offer it, and maybe that could happen in some linux
>> distribution/set up?
>>
>> things would really be sorted if the folders were just created once and
>> for all...
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> 2017-04-07 7:08 GMT-03:00 Julian Brooks <jbeezez at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Roman,
>>>
>>> Yeah, I'd spotted the
>>> ~/.local/lib/pd/extra
>>> as being canonical from an earlier thread but as 1. I didn't already
>>> have that folder 2. historically (dangerous I know) the non-hidden path had
>>> always been 'the place' for externals, so I just blithely carried on
>>> regardless - ouch(blush).
>>>
>>> All below meant with the utmost respect for the work currently being
>>> done...
>>>
>>> Doesn't this just cause more issues? While I can conceptualise the
>>> reasoning for differing usr/lib/puredata (vanilla install) and usr/lib/pd
>>> folders - it is another added layer of confusion for newbs (not meant as a
>>> pejorative).
>>> Obfuscating externals in hidden folders seems unnecessary (and yes, I'm
>>> aware I brought 'canonical' into it /.worms/can of/argh).
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar enough with other linux flavours to know this but
>>> certainly on debian I have no other ~/.folders on my system, even though
>>> the non-hidden path already exists via the apt install (and there's a ton
>>> of other programs' 'stuff' in /usr/lib/).
>>> So for me I'd vote for consistency, not one folder with externals via
>>> apt and another via deken (as well as the vanilla 'extra') - it's too
>>> confusing.
>>>
>>> Of course I'm not necessarily saying that there should only be a 'one
>>> approach fits all' for all linux flavours (that's not how we roll) but then
>>> again it might save lots of people lots of headaches if it was simple,
>>> doable and clear across the board (I'm not including Win and Mac here
>>> obviously - they've got their own issues). Well, actually having reread
>>> that line _-_ ok, I guess that is what I'm saying then - "one method to
>>> rule them all".
>>> Certainly for writing documentation this would make things so much
>>> easier.
>>>
>>> Brilliant that deken can sort all this very soon but for those of us
>>> stuck in an eternal 'now' we could do with a solution, or at least a
>>> consistent conceptual approach:)
>>>
>>> Andy - mooooooove along please (and yes, I've just added it to my
>>> .bashrc:D
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>> On 7 April 2017 at 10:03, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Don, 2017-04-06 at 21:12 +0100, Julian Brooks wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Now of course I can just dl whatever lib via deken, save it somewhere
>>>> > within where I do have permissions and cp it to the right place but
>>>> > I'm lazy at heart - plus for 'how-to's this is a more complex
>>>> > description - how are others doing it?
>>>>
>>>> On Linux, the "correct" path (a.k.a the user specific search path) is
>>>> ~/.local/lib/pd/extra. Just use Deken to download there directly. If
>>>> the folder already exists, Deken will suggest it as the first option.
>>>> There is no need to copy things around.
>>>>
>>>> NOTE: You still have to create that directory manually. However,
>>>> upcoming versions of Pd will include a Deken that automatically creates
>>>> that folder if you chose so.
>>>>
>>>> Roman
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