[PD] Stable Pd-extended package for Ubuntu 10.04LTS?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 16:15 -0400, Martin Peach wrote:
> mark hadman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there's a stable pd-extended available for Ubuntu
> > 10.04 LTS yet.
> > 
> > I've tried the lucid nightly build from 7th May (A couple of random
> > crashes made me uninstall it pretty damn quick), and I've tried the
> > repository (Jaunty version), which had unsatisfiable dependencies.
> > 
> > Anyone doing better?
> 
> I put ubuntu10.04-netbook-i386 onto a mini-itx with via nano cpu.
> Today's pd-extended from
> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2010-05-08/Pd-0.42.5-extended-20100508-ubuntu-lucid-i386.deb
> ...seems to run OK, but not in -rt, so the sound is quite glitchy.
> With -rt it starts up but hangs with the watchdog message if I try to do 
> anything with it.

As a quick'n'dirty workaround, I just copied pd-watchdog from the
vanilla to /usr/lib/pd/bin/, which finally made it possible to run the
nightly builds with -rt.

Seems time for a bug report.

Roman