On Linux it's most common for your compiled binaries to be installed to /usr/local. I recommend you keep this default, because if you ever want to remove the version you created you can do it without messing with your all-important /usr folder.

Ubuntu looks for binaries in /usr/local/bin before it tries /usr/bin. That means that your compiled 0.46-7 should be the preferred version.

You can double check this with:
$ echo $PATH

you should get something like /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games: etc., meaning the OS will check the local folders first

If you launch pd from the terminal, does it launch the new version?

To get the menu launcher right, you probably need to edit /usr/share/applications/puredata.desktop (or pd.desktop or whatever it's called) to point to the right binary file in /usr/local/bin

-Joel

On 12/20/2015 11:32 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
I know very little about Linux, but I know that when you compile software, the binary (or is it just a symlink to the binary?) is installed in /usr/local/bin, not /usr/bin.
Why do you have problems with externals? Can't you set their path in Pd's preferences?

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Ingo <ingo@miamiwave.com> wrote:
OK, I did it once more and found out that it installed the files in
/usr/local/lib/ instead of /user/lib/ where it used to be.

It also did not associate the ".pd" extension with Pd anymore so I have to
open them with "Open" from the file menu or the command line.

Could I simply move the pd folder to the old directory (/user/lib/) or would
that cause problems?

I'm still having lots of problems with externals that I installed via deken.
Doesn't look like I can get my old stuff running that was originally created
with Pd-Extended.

Hmmm!

Ingo



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ingo [mailto:ingo@miamiwave.com]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 18:02
> An: 'Alexandros Drymonitis'
> Cc: 'pd-list@lists.iem.at'
> Betreff: AW: [PD] How to update Pd 0.45.4 to 0.46.7 0n Ubuntu 14.4 (Odroid
> XU4)
>
> That's what I had thought originally.
>
> It did a bunch of stuff (without any errors) but I still had version
> 0.45.4 afterwards.
> Then I tried uninstalling 0.45.4 and the installing 0.46.7 but that gave
> me no Pd at all ...
>
> Ingo
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Alexandros Drymonitis [mailto:adrcki@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 17:52
> An: Ingo
> Cc: pd-list@lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] How to update Pd 0.45.4 to 0.46.7 0n Ubuntu 14.4 (Odroid
> XU4)
>
> sudo make install?
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Ingo <ingo@miamiwave.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to update the Pd version 0.45.4 that came with the Ubuntu 14.4
> on my Odroid XU4.
>
> I have downloaded the source of 0.46.7 and compiled it.
>
> The INSTALL.txt says this:
>
> …
> run the following commands:
>  ./autogen.sh
>  ./configure
>  make
>
> I ran that but this obvoiusly does not actually install Pd 0.46.7
>
> What is missing?
>
> Thanks, Ingo
>
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