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> > I am on Gentoo-Linux, which I freshly installed a month ago. With<br>
> > the Gentoo system I had previously I experimented with pd-overlay<br>
> > and ebuilds, which are not supported by the Gentoo crew, which tends<br>
> > to make things more complicated than easier.<br>
> > The current system has to last longer than the previous one, so I<br>
> > willl no longer unmask packages or install overlays and ebuilds<br>
> > from other sources than from the Gentoo-crew itsself.<br>
> ><br>
> > In case of the need to install things not supported by the<br>
> > Gentoo-crew those have to compile out-of-the-box (classical way<br>
> > of installing which only system dependency is of "being on<br>
> > a linux box" instead of makeing diffderences what distribution<br>
> > is used.)<br>
> ><br>
> > By the way: pd-extended searches for dpkg-* executables and than<br>
> > thinks of being on Debian and installs everything into /usr/bin<br>
> > instead of /usr/local/bin.<br>
> > My opinion is, that this logic is not working in every case. Gentoo<br>
> > offers dpkg-* utils also. The result is that pd-extended gets<br>
> > installed into places, which are only for ebuilds.<br>
> > (Takes me some time to figure out, whether everything wants<br>
> > to go to /usr...)<br>
> > As long as there are no official ebuilds for Gentoo, pd-extended<br>
> > should keep its fingers off /usr.<br>
> > If the distribution cannot figured out 100% surely, break the installation<br>
> > process or ask the user for help.<br>
> > The existence or not-existence of certain tools is not strong logic.<br>
> ><br>
> > Only my two cents, your currency may vary... ;)<br>
> ><br>
> > ---<br>
> ><br>
> > I compiled pd-0.42-5 from the link you gave me, and it<br>
> > compiles/installes well.<br>
> > Unfortunately I have no clue, how install the rest, which makes the<br>
> > now installed pd-vanilla into pd-extended...<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> <a href="http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/" target="_blank">http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/</a><br>
> Here you can download several external libraries. Some may install easy,<br>
> some may not. That's why the community came up with the 'template' (also in<br>
> the externals-folder) to create a standard for libraries. Maybe in somewhere<br>
> future all libraries will install the same way.<br>
> It's a hell of a job to install all libraries pd-extended contains, but I<br>
> guess there's no need for that. Pd-extended loads a bunch of externals every<br>
> time you'll probably never use. It's easy though to have them all installed<br>
> but personally I seemed to use almost only vanilla-objects. Since I use the<br>
> same version you just installed I even know better what's available for pd.<br>
> The only disadvantage of not having pd-extended I can think of is when you<br>
> download someone else's patch and the only information you get is that all<br>
> objects are included in pd-extended.<br>
><br>
> So whether you can use it the way as described above or you can try to<br>
> change the install-path of pd-extended and uninstall pd-vanilla again.<br>
> For the last option: searching somewhere in the source for "/usr/bin/" and<br>
> change that bit of text to "usr/local/bin" is what I would try in your<br>
> position.<br>
> mfg<br>
> Funs<br>
<br>
</div></div>No! Stop...I will NOT search through the source to get something<br>
instaled which is called"stable" or "release code" to get a hint how<br>
install the whole stuff. I am no developper (in this case). I am a<br>
user. The trouble starts, where a faulty packaege is detected late in<br>
the __installation phase__ of the makefile system, urging the user to<br>
gues the way back to the failure inducing problem.<br>
Soryy guys...I quit.<br>
<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Nothing to be sorry for. It's up to you what software you use.<br>mfg<br>Funs<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Bye,<br>
Best regards,<br>
mcc<br>
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