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

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Mon Dec 1 18:59:12 CET 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:54 +0000, Ilias Anagnostopoulos wrote:
> Hello Roman,
> 
> I assume you tried downloading the package through HTTP.

exactly.

>  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.

i see. cool work you did!

> 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.

i see..

> 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.

right..

thanks for your detailed answer and the work you put it.

roman





		
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