hello

I know its not the most fashionable of distros, but I've been trying to get my head around setting up an installation of pd for openSuse 11.  Unfortunately, not even vanilla is in the repos.  This aside, I know I will need externals, and would prefer learning pd from the comforts that extended provides, so I'd like to build extended.

I've had a go at following the various conflicting readmes, inevitably getting stuck at some point.  The bigger problem is I don't really understand "why" I'm doing what I'm doing, and as such would really like to.

So here's the first questions in no doubt a long series of questions that will demonstrate my ignorance, stupidity and inability to "search the archives" (which I have repeatedly) just so I can get this built and up and running:


Why, after downloading a package called "source" (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pure-data/Pd-0.40.3-extended.tar.bz2), do I then need to download the source via a cvs download script (Pd-0.40.3-extended/scripts/checkout-developer-layout.sh)?  Or do I not need to download the latter and only make the former (which seems to fail for want of Gem, which I don't really want anyway)? 


color me confused...

-michael