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

Ben Baker-Smith bbakersmith at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 20:09:27 CET 2010


Problem solved!

The final trick was to install gcc-snapshot using "sudo apt-get
gcc-snapshot" rather than through getlibs.

Thanks for all your help Andras.

-Ben

2010/2/17 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
>
>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> 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
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> 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
>> >>
>> >
>> > In fact.. that's exactly what happened (dist-upgrade from Jaunty to
>> > Karmic). The sad thing is that this is the second machine I've tried
>> > the upgrade on, and the second to fail. I was prepared this time,
>> > backed everything up prior to the attempt, so it's more of an
>> > annoyance than anything.
>> >
>> > -Ben
>> >
>>
>> Ok, so I am now attempting to install pd-extended on a fresh 64-bit
>> 9.10 Karmic Ubuntu desktop. The "Method 2" instructions on
>> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/64BitLinux/ seem to work fine
>> until I have to install libgomp.so.l
>>
>> It seems to install using "sudo getlibs -l libgomp.so.l" just like all
>> the ones before it, but then when I open pd-extended I still receive
>> the following error:
>>
>> /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/Gem.pd_linux: libgomp.so.l: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory
>> Gem: can't load library
>>
>> Gem appears to be the only library that won't load, unfortunately it
>> is the one I care the most about.
>>
>> -Ben
>
> Hmm. My best bet is that the whole (i386) package needs to be installed,
> which is called libgomp1. The is an util called apt-file which helps you
> find which package contains a specific file - not sure this solves the
> problem, though.
> Also, getlibs seems to always do the "install? Y/n?" even when it doesn't
> install anything at the end.
>
> Andras
>




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