[PD] missing dependencies for pd-extended on ubuntu 8.10

[Ilias Anagnostopoulos]

Hello Roman,

I assume you tried downloading the package through HTTP. There is an 
info link next to the download, md5 and APT links on the download page, 
that links here: http://pd.ianagnostopoulos.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/notes.txt

This describes the dependencies, and gives you another link,
http://pd.ianagnostopoulos.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/pd-deps.tar
which contains a tar archive with the three packages of the dependencies.

If you try getting it through the OtherSide APT, the dependencies are 
there and thus automatically configured.

These three packages have been removed from the official Ubuntu (and I 
think also Debian) repositories since no package there depended on them. 
My understanding is that they are NOT replaced by the ones you 
mentioned. I tried simply changing the dependencies to the newer 
versions and it installed, but came up with many errors when launching PD.

GEM seems to need the specific versions it depends on. I think that 
since there is no "serious" reason not to use these libraries, it 
doesn't make sense doing anything to the source code to make it 
compatible with the newer versions. If we simply provide these extra 
packages with the PD package, by hosting them on the same places, it 
will be fine. Since nothing else has anything to do with them, they 
won't break anything.

-Ilias