[PD] Install pd-extended on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 i686

[András Murányi]

2010/2/12 Ben Baker-Smith <bbakersmith at gmail.com>

> 2010/2/11 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Ben Baker-Smith <bbakersmith at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> >>
> >> Sorry, there was a typo in my initial message, it should say "there is
> >> no i686 package available".
> >>
> >> When I tried to install the Jaunty package I got a "wrong kernel type"
> >> error. All the packages seem to be for i386 and lpia, while my machine
> >> is running i686. The only mention of an i686 version that I have found
> >> is for Karmic in the 02-10-10 nightly build (and it seems rather small
> >> at 5.1M).
> >>
> >> When I tried adding adding to sources.list and installing via apt-get
> >> I received the following error:
> >> "Failed to fetch
> >>
> http://apt.puredata.info/releases/dists/jaunty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> >> 404 Not Found"
> >>
> >> Anyway, I ended up installing pd vanilla, gem, and zexy seperately and
> >> adding the appropriate paths in the file > startup menu.  Everything
> >> is working just fine now.
> >>
> >> -Ben
> >
> > Hello Ben,
> >
> > I am on amd64 too, and my best recommendation is that you use the i386
> > version. At the moment it is just faster and more stable than 64-bit
> builds.
> > To set up an i386 package on your 64-bit Jaunty and satisfy all the
> 32-bit
> > dependecies you'll most likely want to use getlibs:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790
> >
> > Andras
> >
> >
>
> Thanks Andras, that sounds like just what I need.
> I'll give it a shot this weekend after I fix a botched dist-upgrade.
>
> -Ben
>

I just noticed there are more specifics at
http://puredata.info/docs/developer/64BitLinux/ under "Method 2"
(...you didn't mistakenly upgrade to Karmic did u? ;o) My girlfriend did
that on her laptop and err... not so good! Been told however that it is less
bad with the RT kernel -  a thing missing from Jaunty.)
Andras
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