Hi,
On 13/01/2020 14:13, info@hansroels.be wrote:
Is an installation of a /recent/ version of Pd vanilla (0.49 or 0.50) possible on an older linux computer?
Should be possible.
I am trying to install Pd 0.50.2 on two older Ubuntu Studio laptops, one has Ubuntu 14.04, the other Ubuntu 16.04.
When I try to install the deb package from https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/puredata/
Pd is atomised into many tiny debs, you'd need all of them...
I get a dependencies error, saying that I need a higher version of libc6.
The chances of random binaries from the internet working are smaller than with Windows I guess.
Is it a solution to try compiling the Pd source code on both machines?
Yes I think so. But it might be awkward with packaged Pd externals (you'd need to keep the old pd around and tell the new Pd where the externals are).
To solve that, you can compile the collection of debs locally. First
add the following two lines (only two lines, without leading space,
email may have wrapped them) to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
(Alternatively add deb + deb-src lines for a later version of Ubuntu
Studio that has the version of Pd you want, then modify the below's -t
accordingly.)
Then invoke something like the following as regular user, being careful to do it one line at a time and read the output so you can stop if apt decides to upgrade everything to unstable or remove key parts of your installation:
mkdir build
cd build
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get -t unstable build-dep puredata
apt-get -t unstable --build source puredata
sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install ./*.deb
If the sudo apt-get is too risky and you decide not to run it after
all, you could try again without -t unstable and hope that older
versions of the build dependencies are ok.
Then you can edit your sources.list again and comment out the lines
you added before. Remember to run sudo apt update after changing it.
If you need to downgrade the packages later, aptitude works much
better than apt or apt-get (it offers choices between different ways
to resolve problems).
or is the only solution to upgrade the whole Ubuntu Studio version? > (...which isn't possible on one of these machines).
The above is roughly what "backports" repositories do, I don't know if there is one for Ubuntu Studio. You can also compile the source from Miller's site "by hand".