[PD] [PD-announce] Most recent Pd packaged for Ubuntu (and derivatives)

[Roman Haefeli]

Yesterday, I discovered that you cannot install "Pure Data" with the
default graphical "Software" manager on Ubuntu status.

It looks like the vanilla (non-terminal) way of installing software on
Ubuntu (at least 20.04) is the graphical application gnome-software.
gnome-software works like an app store and apparently also manages
snaps and other formats. However, the list of available applications is
curated and "Pure Data" is not part of it. It doesn't appear in the
section "Audio & Video" nor in the section "Development tools". Even
specifically searching for "Pure Data" or "puredata" doesn't yield any
results. That's not exactly good advertisement! People either have to
install 'synaptic' - which is a graphical frontend for apt - or use the
terminal to the install the 'puredata' package. 

Yet, I'm not sure how this is addressed. But I think we should address
it. 

Someone on #ubuntu posted this link when I asked about the process of
including software in the curated list:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/

Roman



On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 09:32 +0200, Robert Grah wrote:
> Gerat news! Thank You!
> 
>  ---- Am Di, 05 Apr 2022 23:35:37 +0200 Roman Haefeli <
> reduzent at gmail.com> schrieb ----
>  > Hi 
>  > 
>  > I added the current version of Pure Data to my personal package
> archive
>  > (PPA), so that it is finally possible to get a recent version of
> Pd on
>  > Ubuntu without compiling. 
>  > 
>  > Kudos goes to IOhannes who maintains the puredata package on
> Debian and
>  > who makes sure that the most recent release of Pd is available in
> the
>  > backports repository. His work enabled me to just¹ get his package
>  > sources and push them to my PPA. 
>  > 
>  > I also rewrote the "How to install on Debian/Ubuntu" FAQ page on
>  > puredata.into who was referring to the retired apt.puredata.info
> repo
>  > and Pd-extended. 
>  > 
>  > You find instructions on how to get the most recent version of Pd
> on
>  > Debian and on Ubuntu here:
>  > 
>  > https://puredata.info/docs/faq/debian
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Roman
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > ¹well, a little work was necessary...
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