Hi
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 08:37 +0000, J. Simon van der Walt wrote:
I've installed ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook, and on top of that the audio packages from ubuntustudio. This is working well. For Pd, however, I *think* what I have is a vanilla installation, rather than extended, which I would like. In Synapctic Package Manager I can see I have puredata 0.42.6-1build1 plus a version of gem, but I can't seem to see anything in Synaptic which looks like Pd extended. Do I have to add a software source or something?
AFAIK, there is no repository delivering Pd-extended.
Alternatively, on http://puredata.info/downloads I see a link to:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pure-data/Pd-0.42.5-extended-ubuntu-maveric...
Should I download that instead?
Yes.
Should I remove the existing installation?
You can, if you want, but it's not mandatory. You most certainly have Pd vanilla installed now and both, Pd-extended and Pd, can happily live side-by-side nowadays.
(Please excuse the perhaps slightly naive 'now-click-here' tone of this question: it's deliberate. So far I've managed to get this machine installed and running the way I want it without using the terminal once, just coming at it like I would on the mac or pc. I'm trying to keep going on ubuntu sticking to this policy, partly just to prove whether or not it can be done...)
Good luck! (I'm confident it's possible, though)
Roman