On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 05:07 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
no, I'm just doing apt-get install puredata
This one still installs GEM for me, which is fine, I can just delete it, but I'm trying and worried about learning how installing Pd on linux works. Like how you can install just vanilla, and which package comes with what externals and why.
apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests puredata
On Debian, the default configuration is to install recommended packages, but not suggested ones. On Ubuntu Studio, I don't know what the default is, but it seems that on your box suggested packages are installed, too (which I - personally - find annoying).
To change the default settings, please check here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/179060/how-to-not-install-recommended-and-su...
Roman