On 8 September 2011 13:29, felix nicanor <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hey Julian, thankyou for your welcome,
>

no problem.

>
> I am in Puredyne 911 carrot and coriander dvd version (installed, not live)
>
>

Yes, me too.


> and that probably shows me my first error: I wanted to install puredata
> extended for karmic 910 (the down below ubuntu version in this link:
> http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/pd-extended).
>

That version wont run on my 64b machine but I have Pde as well as Pd
installed on this machine so it is possible.

I have a memory of having to change a couple of parameters in the makefile
to get it to work.  But it did.  Sorry I'm not more precise, it was a while
ago and I don't do much compiling either.  One of the pleasures of Puredyne
is that it pretty much all works so it generally doesn't require much
fiddling with.  This can also be a negative too.

>
> Yes, I might like the preinstalled version as I understand that it must be
> configured precicely and therefore stable and reliable, so I am willing to
> give it a try. But I do not understand some problems and differences I find.
> I add a path to my abstractions
> (/home/felix/mysounds/mypuredata/abstractions) and I accept and it gives me
> the same result every time: instead of selecting all the abstractions in
> this folder, I don't know why it always choose this path to a folder inside
> the one I choose: /home/felix/mysounds/mypuredata/abstractions/rottensound
> (in which I only have a few abstractions classified under the "rottensound"
> name.
>

Have you explored the '.pdrc' file?  On my computer it's in /home/julian and
you need 'show hidden files' turned on in the folder window. This is where
your pd pointing is done I think.  Check if your abstractions are being set
to the wrong folder in the .pdrc, just correct/add-to the file and save out,
reboot pd.

>
> The second problem is that I don't know how to install or even find the
> abstractions that I am missing (freeverb is the one I noticed), but I guess
> that both this problems should be posted in the pd list instead (?), and I
> believe that this last one might not be difficult to solve anyway (hope I'm
> right).
>

You should be able to find those easily online but I am also aware that Pd
still has no satisfactory way of telling you what externals you are
missing.  I would recommend checking that all the available libs in Puredyne
are definitely booting and then see what, if anything, you are missing.

I have compiled a few libs recently and it was pretty painless(pmpd for
example), although there are a few that defeated me (cyclone).  As someone
has mentioned previously it is possible to just transfer some libs from
program to program and across different computers but I guess it should in
no way be seen as a sensible solution.

>
> Something relating Puredyne that I don't get is how do you install a debian
> package, I mean, as I tried xubuntu before for a month or two, and as I
> realize Puredyne is based in it, how is it that Puredyne does not have the
> automatic installing proccess when clicking on a .deb file, just asking for
> the needed packages?
>

You have the 'gDebi' package installer?  Sometimes I add things that I think
everyone already has, Ed Kelly recommended having the 'xfce cpu govorner'
which is very handy for example.    One of the design aims of Puredyne is to
be much lighter than Ubuntu, sometimes that streamlining makes for a more
involved interaction with the OS.

>
> Also, when I right click in the download manager in firefox and choose
> "open containing folder" why is it asking me to choose a program to open it
> with? what should I do then?
>

Ah yes, that is irritating isn't it.  Your files will be in the download
folder /home/blahblah/download, I think.

>
> Anyway, I am new to Puredyne (first 36 hours), and again, I am also new to
> linux itself (some months), so forgive if my questions are not intelligent
> ones. I'll appreciate a lot the gidelines.
>

Hope you like it - it's really worth persevering with I reckon.  I too am
very much Linux-light and perhaps some more knowledgeable list'ers can weigh
in to help with your specific problems.  If not, apparently the irc channel
is where you can find some of the devs, some of the time.

>
> Thank you again and best wishes to you too,
>

Your welcome and kind regards,

Julian





> Felix
>
> Julian Brooks wrote:
>
> Hey Felix and welcome to the list,
>
> Well firstly I would say that you should check/search some of the previous
> threads - my memory is that there is one from a month or so ago that walks
> you through the process (though I haven't tried it myself).  You should also
> include which version of Puredyne you have and also which version of Pde you
> want to install.
>
> Also are you aware that the pre-installed version of Pd has many of the
> major libs pre-packaged and it may be simpler to just add something if it
> isn't already included.  There is also a big bunch of abstractions as well
> as external libs so have a good explore.
>
> All good wishes,
>
> Julian
>
> On 8 September 2011 02:56, felix nicanor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am new to Puredyne and want to install Pd extended, but it doesn't
>> show in the repositories and does not work installing the .deb file (I must
>> say that I am new to linux too, just in case).
>> Could anybody help me in this issue?
>> Thank you all and a big HELLO to everybody in the list!
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