[PD] installing latest pd vanilla on RPI

[Alexandre Torres Porres via Pd-list]

"RPis are not very powerful, and running them without a desktop (using ssh or
similar over ethernet and /etc/rc.local to launch stuff on boot) makes a
lot of sense."

are you saying it basically doesn't really work for live audio applications
with the desktop system on and all?

cause, yeah, it seems it can'thandle, but I always thought you guys were
doing it with the desktop system and everything

I just got into this for curiosity, I don't really need a RPi for anything,
just wanted to play with it and see if it could run simple patches. I could
eventually use it live, but it wouldn't make sense to run it over ssh with
another computer (would rather just use the other computer).

cheers


2014-07-04 3:34 GMT-03:00 Simon Wise via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>:

> On 03/07/14 22:55, Alexandre Torres Porres via Pd-list wrote:
>
>> Hi IOhannes, I read your other answer giving more info on why it could be
>> outdated even if released a couple of weeks ago. I think I get, although
>> I'd still assume or don't see why pd wouldn't be available at "apt-get" if
>> it were up to date.
>>
>
> The meaning of 'stable' in debian is that it does not change, and apt-get
> fetches packages that you wish to install from this base (it would be
> possible for someone to maintain the latest pd as a raspbian package, but
> it is almost as easy to install from Millers site so no-one bothers ... the
> fact that pd is in debian means it gets tested on ARM and the version in
> 'stable' automatically gets built as part of raspbian with no extra work,
> which was especially nice when raspbian first came out). This system allows
> distributions like raspbian to have a predictable base that they can then
> take the time required to adapt for their purposes, and it allows sites
> like Millers to build the up-to-date versions within that known framework
> so that they 'just work' (and will still work a few weeks later) because
> all the stuff it depends on does not keep changing versions every day.
>
> In the case of raspbian they have compiled debian with lots of
> modifications to suit their particular CPU and have added and keep working
> on lots of extra stuff that is specifically for their GPU and peripherals
> etc. They then maintain raspbian with all these added things updated from
> time to time but staying with 'stable' as the base. Presumably they will
> move to jessie sometime for their main version (probably not till they get
> it tested and running cleanly sometime after it is 'frozen' in advance of
> it becoming the new stable ... this freeze would be expected reasonably
> soon, debian does this on a two year cycle). But that does involve lots of
> work and lots of testing since they are building the whole of debian for an
> architecture which is halfway between the two official debian architectures
> (the CPU is a rather old version of ARM, but with floating point hardware).
> Chasing all the changes in the latest versions of everything all the time
> would be very hard work.
>
> As for menus or desktop icons ... it is just a little text file called
> "puredata.desktop" containing something like:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Pure Data
> Comment=Visual dataflow programming platform for multimedia
> Comment[ca]=Plataforma de programació visual per aplicacions multimèdia
> Comment[de]=Grafische Datenflussprogrammierung für Multimedia
> Comment[es]=Plataforma de programación visual para aplicaciones multimedia
> Comment[fr]=Plateforme de programmation visuelle pour applications
> multimédia
> Comment[it]=Piattaforma di programmazione visuale per applicazioni
> multimedia
> Comment[pt]=Plataforma de programação visuais para multimedia
> Exec=pd -noadc %F
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Icon=puredata.xpm
> Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Development
> MimeType=text/x-puredata;application/x-maxmsp;text/x-maxmsp;
> StartupNotify=false
>
> using the appropriate "Exec=" line, and an appropriate file for "Icon="
>
> if you add this file to the folder "/usr/share/applications" then it
> should turn up in menus, or if you put it on the desktop it should show up
> as an icon you can drag and drop to.
>
>
> But the RPis are not very powerful, and running them without a desktop
> (using ssh or similar over ethernet and /etc/rc.local to launch stuff on
> boot) makes a lot of sense.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>
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