[PD] Pd linking to Openoffice

[Atwood, Robert C]

My choice was to give up on Ubuntu and go for Debian, Ubutu gave me a
taste of the Debian-style distro, but lacks packages I wanted. (Still
have a soft spot for Slackware though) It was not due to a problem like
yours however.. 

When compiling stuff, I usually do as root,thus avoiding any such
permission problem.  In the Ubuntu universe this takes a bit of
finagling since by default you are 'supposed' to only use sudo to
execute root commands because actually logging in as root is supposed to
be 'bad' in some way. 



I don't know if Ubuntu has a pd package but Debian does,
http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/puredata 

and I believe the maintainer of the package is on this list too. You may
be able to install in on your Ubuntu if the dependencies are met. It's
probably worth a try , even if it doesn't work it may provide further
information on what the problem is!  Any Ubutu experts here care to
elaborate  ?

 I think it's basically vanilla, and you still need to install the
externals that you want. But that's not so hard .