[PD] apt-get puredata no gui available

[olsen]

pix wrote:

>(i accidentally mailed this off-list, 
>
me too...:
thanks to all for help!
g
olsen

>but it was the solution to the
>problem, so i'm just posting it for the benefit of the archive)
>  
>
>i just did a test on my machine and this output seems consistent with
>not having the "lo" (loopback) network device set up - this was
>mentioned by frank in an earlier post. i've had the same problem with a
>debian install before, so here are some verbose instructions on setting
>it up.
>
>first test to see if you have the loopback defice. if you have it, the
>output of "ifconfig lo" will look like this:
>
>root at oto:~$ ifconfig lo
>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>          RX bytes:7989 (7.8 KiB)  TX bytes:7989 (7.8 KiB)
>
>note the "UP" on the 3rd line of output.
>
>if you don't see this, then (on debian) add the following two lines to
>/etc/network/interfaces:
>
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
>the "auto lo" line means that next time you reboot, it will come up
>automatically, but to quickly do this without rebooting, run "ifup lo". 
>
>now running "pd" should present you with the tk interface we all
>lo(v|ath)e ;)
>
>pix.
>
>On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:43:31PM +0200, olsen wrote:
>  
>
>>>Could be many things, you should provide more info.  Perhaps your  
>>>DISPLAY env var isn't set up properly.
>>>      
>>>
>>env gives my DISPLAY=:0.0
>>
>>  Send a transcript of your  
>>    
>>
>>>console session also.
>>>      
>>>
>>console session on pd startup?:
>>on ./pd 
>>there is nothing more than signal 2 when ctrl.+c is hit
>>
>>/home/olsen# pd -nogui
>>couldn't open MIDI input device 0
>>couldn't open MIDI output device 0
>>opened 0 MIDI input device(s) and 0 MIDI output device(s).
>>and
>>pd -noaudio
>>the same as on ./pd ->blank
>>
>>the alsa modules compiled fine and with xmms sounds ok
>>thanks
>>olsen
>>
>>
>>    
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>>>.hc
>>>
>>>
>>>On May 14, 2004, at 6:15 PM, olsen wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>buenas
>>>>I've installed puredata via apt-get.
>>>>starting pd - not one pixel of the familiar tcl gui is comin up, no  
>>>>error message in the console just quiting with ctrl+c brings the Pd:  
>>>>signal 2 message and nothing more available - space invasion?!
>>>>Anyone dealt with that problem? I'm on debian-unstable.
>>>>gr olsen
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