<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi list, I have problems instaling GEM, I hope somebody is willing to point me in the right direction. Here is what I did.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I installed Pd
0.48.1 with the terminal
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>sudo apt-get
install puredata</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">That
worked fine, </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">I
am</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
on</span></span> Xubuntu 18. Typing in terminal:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><strong><i>lsb_release
-a </i></strong>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">gives:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>No LSB modules
are available.</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Distributor
ID: Ubuntu</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Description: Ubuntu
18.04.5 LTS</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Release: 18.04</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Codename: bionic</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">My processor info,
typing in terminal:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><b>lscpu</b></p>
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</p>
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I get:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Architecture:
x86_64</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>CPU
op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Byte Order:
Little Endian</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>CPU(s):
2</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>On-line CPU(s)
list: 0,1</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Thread(s) per
core: 1</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Core(s) per
socket: 2</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Socket(s):
1</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>NUMA node(s):
1</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Vendor ID:
AuthenticAMD</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>CPU family:
21</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Model:
112</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Model name:
AMD A6-9225 RADEON R4, 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">So I assume it is an
AMD type. <br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Then I wanted to
install the GEM graphical environment with dekken.
</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Typing <i>gem </i><span style="font-style:normal">in
the dekken window gives many choices. To figure out which one to
install I look for the processor type and OS type. So in my case I
first tried with</span> version 5.0, that did not work, here is the
error:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Commencing
downloading of:</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b><a href="http://puredata.info/downloads/deken/releases/0.5.0/deken-plugin-v0.5.0--externals.zip">http://puredata.info/downloads/deken/releases/0.5.0/deken-plugin-v0.5.0--externals.zip</a></b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Into
/home/mick/Documents/Pd/externals...</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Successfully
unzipped deken-plugin-v0.5.0--externals.zip into
/home/mick/Documents/Pd/externals.</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Unable to add
%s to search paths</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">Then
I exit the process and got these details in the error message:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>invalid
command name ".externals_searchui.results"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>invalid
command name ".externals_searchui.results"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>while
executing</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>"$mytoplevelref.results
delete 1.0 end"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>(procedure
"::deken::clearpost" line 3)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>invoked
from within</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>"::deken::clearpost"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>(procedure
"::deken::initiate_search" line 15)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>invoked
from within</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>"::deken::initiate_search
.externals_searchui"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>invoked
from within</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>".externals_searchui.searchbit.button
invoke"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>("uplevel"
body line 1)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>invoked
from within</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>"uplevel
#0 [list $w invoke]"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>(procedure
"tk::ButtonUp" line 22)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>invoked
from within</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>"tk::ButtonUp
.externals_searchui.searchbit.button"</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>(command
bound to event)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Then tried this
version:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>deken-plugin/0.3.1
(Deken externals downloader - MINIMUM VERSION REQUIRED FOR NEW
PACKAGES)</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b> Uploaded by
zmoelnig @ 2018-04-05 12:00:26</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">and
I got the same result. Then I tried:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>Gem-v0.0.extended-(Linux-i386-32)(Linux-amd64-64)-externals.tar.gz</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b> Uploaded by
chr15m @ 2015-08-07 14:36:01</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">it
did not give errors so I assumed it installed correctly but when I
open the object gemwin it gives me lots of errors, like:</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">
<b><i>gemglutwindow</i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>... couldn't
create</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>GLdefine
GL_LINEAR</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>... couldn't
create</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> <i><b>GLdefine
GL_EXP</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>... couldn't
create</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">…</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">After
that, when I typed gem in dekken I get 3 other options, the one that
I have “installed” (?) and two that were not there before.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b>tof[v0.2.2](Linux-amd64-32)(Sources).dek</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><i><b> Uploaded by
fjkraan @ 2019-12-28 12:07:55</b></i></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>What should I try next?</div><div>Thanks for your patience and generosity.</div><div>Mick<br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://mickmengucci.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">mickmengucci.bandcamp.com</a><br></div><a href="http://facebook.com/mickmengucci3" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">facebook.com/mickmengucci3</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://facebook.com/Labio.pt" target="_blank">facebook.com/Labio.pt</a></div></div><div><br>pure mixture vibration since 1995</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>