[PD] HELP: Pure Data Vanilla v.0.54-0 under Windows 10 22H2 64-bit is not running!

[Miller Puckette]

Well, the "System tells there is already a Pd installation" message 
looks suspicious - but I don't understand the inner workings of the 
installer generator ("nsis") that makes the .exe file so I'm not sure if 
it's anything to worry about.

OTOH, one thing to try would be to manually ... grab the ".zip" file and 
unzip it somewhere in your own files (desktop is OK), then click inside 
"PD\bin" and try starting "pd.cmd" (the terminal app version) and see 
what it says/does.

 From the fact that you have a hung "Wish" app but no "pd" I think 
somehow the gui application (a Wish script) is somehow not even getting 
to where it tries to start pd, which is a separate application with no GUI.

Meanwhile I can't get to a Windows 10 machine myself until Wednesday so 
I can't test any of this myself yet.

Thanks for the reporting in any case!

Miller


On 7/8/23 08:02, Linux ROUEN wrote:
> Hello Miller,
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> No more luck trying to launch Pd Vanilla 0.54.0 after my 3rd installation attempt under Windows 10.
>
> Installation procedure (with antivirus disabled):
> - Manually deleted "C:\Program Files\Pd" folder,
> - Manually deleted Pd Vanilla "StartMenu" entries,
> - Rebooted my PC,
> - Installed "pd-0.54-0.windows-installer.exe" file without any errors,
>    . except a warning message at the beginning of the procedure stating that:
>      "System tells there is already a Pd installation" which impossible!
> - At the end of the installation, ran Pure Data 0.54.0, but nothing happened!
> - In the Windows Tasks Manager, Wish is running but no Pd.
> See the attached zip file summarizing the above.
>
> Best,
> Joseph Gastelais
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] De la part de Miller Puckette
> Envoyé : samedi 8 juillet 2023 15:24
> À : pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Objet : Re: [PD] HELP: Pure Data Vanilla v.0.54-0 under Windows 10 22H2 64-bit is not running!
>
> Well, first off I'd like to see if you can get back up and running  0.53
> OK - then we can confidently try to figure out what happened with 0.54.
>
> I think the machine failed to un-install Pd 0.54 because it was running
> somehow without showing any windows.  The fix for that would be to look
> in the "task manager" (open that using the famous control-alt-delete key
> combination) and find all copies of Pd that are running, and kill them.
> At that point an "uninstall" should work, but it would be simpler and
> more direct simply to delete the folder "\Program Files\Pd".
>
> Once that's done you should be able to install and run Pd 0.53 as it was
> working before.
>
> NExt step, since this is Windows, might be simply to reinstall 0.54 and
> try it again.  If it doesn't immediately work then let's try together to
> figure out why and how to fix it :)
>
> Miller
>
> On 7/7/23 18:34, Linux ROUEN wrote:
>> Hello Pd List,
>>
>> Under Windows 10 22H2 64-bit, the previous 3 versions 0.53.0, 0.53.1
>> and 0.53.2 of Pure Data Vanilla were working okay, but not the latest
>> 0.54.0 version!
>>
>> I tried today to update to it using the
>> ‘pd-0.54-0.windows-installer.exe’ file from Miller’s site but after
>> the installation trying to launch it nothing happens.
>>
>> Installation procedure (with antivirus disabled):
>> - Uninstall Pd 0.53.2: okay
>> - Install ‘pd-0.54-0.windows-installer.exe’: everything went well
>> - Launch Pd 0.54.0: nothing happens!
>> - Uninstall Pd 0.54.0: okay
>> - Reinstall ‘pd-0.53-2.windows-installer.exe’: but lot of errors which
>> was not the case previously!
>> - Launch Pd 0.53.2: it’s opening?!
>> See the attached zip file for the error messages.
>>
>> - Uninstall Pd 0.53.2: okay
>> - Reinstall ‘pd-0.54-0.windows-installer.exe’: but now a lot of errors
>> like with 0.53.2 reinstallation!
>> - Launch Pd 0.54.0: still nothing happens!!
>> See the attached zip file for the error messages.
>>
>> See also the attached Pd Bin & Font zip file for the folders content.
>>
>> Any idea what is going wrong with Pd 0.54.0 installation and now also
>> with Pd 0.53.2 reinstallation?
>> Everything seems to be broken!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joseph Gastelais
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