[PD] Gem: can't load library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:26 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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 ubuntu versions deem you too outdated)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.

Since many people have non-nvidia cards, would it be possible to make  
the default Gem build not dependent on nvidia-specific stuff?  Then  
there could be --enable-nvidia for people who want that.

When building packages (.deb, .tar.gz, whatever), its much more  
important that it run on all machines, than its very well optimized  
on specific machines.  Later, it would be possible to add a pd-gem- 
nvidia package, etc. etc.

.hc


> 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
>
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