João Pais wrote:
- Is it possible to install pd-ext where the program already is,
usr/local/bin/pd?
.deb packages SHOULD NOT install to /usr/local (afair; i cannot give you
any RFC/guideline/bestpractice that confirms this but you should be able
to find something in the wide,wide,web)hmm, that's where synaptic installed pd-ext in the first place. does it
mean that it should be somewhere else? I'll look for some documentation on
that.
iirc this was the (imho: buggy) behaviour of older Pd-extended debs. afaik, this has been fixed and pd-extended now installs into /usr.
the idea is, that you can use one as a drop-in replacement for the
other: if you have either pd-vanilla (pacakge "puredata") or pd-extended
installed, you can just run /usr/bin/pd to launch a Pd.ah. in that case it would make sense for both to uncompact in the same
folder. but anyway I'm not sure that's the best way. they are 2 different
programs - for example, for a while I had to keep using pd-van, because of
features of data structures that were implemented only from 0.40.x
well, i have no solution for you here. if you want to use pd-vanilla then you should install puredata; if you want to use pd-extended, you should use the according package. if the 2 have different versions, you have to decide yourself which one you prefer. mixing the 2 installations can be _a very bad idea_: externals compiled against Pd-extended (that is Pd 0.39) might not work properly with Pd-vanilla (0.41).
however, it would be possible to regard both puredata and Pd-extended as totally different applications (with puredata installing to /usr/lib/pd/ and starting with /usr/bin/pd; and Pd-extended installing to /usr/lib/pd-extended/ and starting with /usr/bin/pd-extended, eventually installing a dpkg-alternative to /usr/bin/pd)
however it is done: don't mix puredata and Pd-extended
your package-manager should handle the dependencies/conflicts correctly,
that is: ask you if you want to uninstall the "puredata" package when
you try to install the "pd-extended" package.as H-C said, it doesn't seem to happen. I only get the error message, and
no other options available.
then it might be a bug in the package-manager, but not in the package.
fgmasdr IOhannes