Julian Brooks wrote:
On 8 September 2011 13:29, felix nicanor <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
Thank you, it works fine now, it recognizes it all.
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)
Still missing freeverb, but now that the screen has got cleaner it seems
to be the only one missing.
I found the source in
http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/freeverb and now I want
to learn how to compile it (the info should be in the documentation, I
guess).
, 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.
How should I do it? Must I try each one in the /usr/lib/pd/extra folder?
Anyway it seems that my patch is quite vanilla. The only external used
is freeverb, and this is because I still don't know how to do a reverb
by myself (using only what puredata provides)
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.
No, I see it is missing. I'll install it now, but I will continue fixing
the already installed pd version. Thank you for the info.
I feel that not having it was lucky, as I am getting confortable with
not needing a probably not configured, supefluous and redundant pde
installment.
A difference I would like to understand is that in the extended version
I was able to change the colours of the canvas, wires and such by
tweaking the pd.tk file in the /usr/lib/pd/bin folder. Now, this version
of pd is more like the vanilla one, is it so? the interface colours are
defined in a way I do not understand. Do you?
about the Puredyne design aim, I really like it, for sure.
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.
Yes it is, but not a great deal. If you happen to find how to fix it
please let me know.
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, you are extremely helpful. Thank you a lot, really
Felix
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]
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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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