[PD] Gem: can't load library

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Max Neupert wrote:
> 
> so, how do you recommend installing pd with some of the most important
> libaries on an ubuntu (debian) machine then?

one simple way should be:
install puredata/gem/... via synaptics. this should resolve a lot of
dependencies for hc's installer.

then you can install hc's installer (if you want to, because (e.g.) the
ubuntu versions deem you too outdated)
the ubuntu/debian-packages and hc's installer should happily live
together on one machine (the official packages will install themselves
into /usr/ while hc's installer should go into /usr/local; since
/usr/local/bin has usually a higher priority than /usr/bin you will get
pd-extended when you type "pd" into your xterm.


> what i actually did was:
> first i looked into the synaptics manager, found pd. there was no info
> which version nor if it's bare pd or whatever, so i looked over to HCS's

this is because "pd" is the old deprecated package name; the new one is
called "puredata" (and "pd" is a virtual package provided by "puredata"
to get dependencies right in the stage of transition)

> site because i run have good experiences with his release on osx. so i
> tried to install this one and  could not get Gem to run either even
> after installing libmpeg, lib imagemagick and whatever else was missing
> even make itself seemed not to be there.

iirc, your last problem was with "glDeleteProgramsNV";
i guess that they only package that would help you here is the
nvidia-binary drivers (of course you will need an nvidia card to make
any use of them).
if you are using some other gfx-card, you will have to recompile Gem
yourself.

this should be quite simple:

1) get all the packages _needed_ for building Gem; since you are using a
Debian-based system, this is as simple as:
#> apt-get build-dep gem

1a) make sure you have automake and autoconf installed (it might be that
 automake is not yet in the build-dependencies of ubuntu's gem)

2) get recent source of Gem (from CVS!) and unpack them

3) optional(!): get some more packages for building Gem (there is a
readme somewhere)

4) build Gem (cd Gem/src && make)



if this is too complicated, get a cheap nvidia-card and it should run.

mfg,asdr.
IOhannes