> On 2016-10-02 04:00 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:


>>
>> Any clue why it's removed during installation?

> It appeared there was a windowless "Software Installer" already running,
> subverting other of versions itself and gdebi. Without it, purr-data
> installs and runs as good as one might expect from a VM.

Weird.

So the remaining issue is that the deb unnecessarily requires dev
packages, right?

>>
>>> Apart from this I tried to compile and run just the core. Compiling and
>>> retrieving the nwjs-sdk eventually worked but running failed on the nw
>>> executable which printed "Created new window in existing browser
>>> session." and "watchdog: signaling pd..."
>>
>> What method are you using to run Purr Data?  At the moment, this can happen
>> when nw.js is already running.

> Indeed there were two nw's running. Killing those and restarting gives
> the following pop-up:
> Failed to load extension from:
> /home/fjkraan/oldHome/PureData/purr-data-mod/pd/bin. Manifest file is
> missing or unreadable.

> But compiling is not a priority.

Are you describing compiling then installing, or just compiling?

-Jonathan