Hi On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 08:37 +0000, J. Simon van der Walt wrote: > I've installed ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook, and on top of that the > audio packages from ubuntustudio. This is working well. For Pd, > however, I *think* what I have is a vanilla installation, rather than > extended, which I would like. In Synapctic Package Manager I can see I > have puredata 0.42.6-1build1 plus a version of gem, but I can't seem > to see anything in Synaptic which looks like Pd extended. Do I have to > add a software source or something?
AFAIK, there is no repository delivering Pd-extended. > > Alternatively, on http://puredata.info/downloads I see a link to: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pure-data/Pd-0.42.5-extended-ubuntu-maverick-i386.deb > > Should I download that instead? Yes. > Should I remove the existing installation? You can, if you want, but it's not mandatory. You most certainly have Pd vanilla installed now and both, Pd-extended and Pd, can happily live side-by-side nowadays. > (Please excuse the perhaps slightly naive 'now-click-here' tone of > this question: it's deliberate. So far I've managed to get this > machine installed and running the way I want it without using the > terminal once, just coming at it like I would on the mac or pc. I'm > trying to keep going on ubuntu sticking to this policy, partly just to > prove whether or not it can be done...) Good luck! (I'm confident it's possible, though) Roman _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list