Thanks IOhannes,
apt-get build-dep GEM solved the problem.

Just for collective info apt-get build-dep GEM prompted for the removal of Pd-extended in order to install updates.

I recompiled and re-installed, everything works, although on creation of [text2d] Pd complains:
[text2d]: cannot find font-file '/usr/lib/pd-extended/extra/Gem/vera.ttf'
Then I need to manually open a font, and it works fine.

Can I set the correct path to my fonts folder?
or I had to do it beforehand...

M






2010/8/2 IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
On 08/02/2010 01:38 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
> Thanks, Hans.
> I went back to that page and tried to install again all packages, but I do
> already have all of them, except libavcodec-dev because it has a couple of
> unsatisfied dependencies.
>
> mmm, anybody has an hint?

for font support you need "ftgl-dev" (nowadays often called "libftgl-dev")

a good start on debian (and clones, like ubuntu) is to install all the
build-dependencies for the regular "gem" package by issuing
# apt-get build-dep gem
(or for those feeble at heart:
% sudo apt-get build-dep gem

dfmas
IOhannes




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