[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 release candidate 1: last chance to report your bugs

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
>To: Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at> 
>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 release candidate 1: last chance to report your bugs
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>You shall be able to choose tcl 8.5 with:
>sudo update-alternatives --config wish
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>Then, did this error prevent Pd from loading? Afaicr, plugins' errors shall not block Pd.


Right, but the question is whether Pd-extended should go ahead and require tcl/tk 8.5.
The ttk requirement of search-plugin.tcl-- which loads by default in the next Pd-extended--
is one reason.  Avoiding two messages in each "Fonts are ugly/weird/broken" thread is
another:

User-to-entire-mailinglist: Font problem x y z...
Answer-back-to-entire-mailinglist: Are you using tcl/tk 8.5?
User-to-entire-mailinglist: Yes so what next / No but now I am thanx


Much less likely with tcl/tk 8.5 requirement:
User-to-entire-mailinglist: In 2006 I set up my Pd box and stepped out for a bit

to go to medical school. Now I updated Pd and suddenly there's this error.

What happened?


-Jonathan


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>András
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>On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>Don't know if this has been mentioned before...
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>>On Ubuntu Lucid (10.04LTS) Pd-extended-0.43 deb from the launchpad.net repository.
>>Pd won't start properly in that it complains that it need Tcl/Tk8.5.
>>Tcl/Tk8.5 is installed, but so is Tcl/Tk8.4. 
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>>(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: version conflict for package "Tk": have 8.4, need 8.5
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>>    while executing
>>"package require Tk 8.5"
>>    ("uplevel" body line 10)
>>    invoked from within
>>"uplevel #0 $tclcode"FAILED TO LOAD /usr/lib/pd-extended/extra/search-plugin/search-plugin.tcl
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>>So I tried changing the symlinks in /usr/lib to point to 8.5. This
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-01-24 09:45 libtk.a -> libtk8.5.a
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2013-01-24 09:45 libtk.so -> libtk8.5.so
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>>Still no good.
>>Could Pd-extended be made to force the use of the 8.5 libs?
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>>Ed
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