On May 17, 2008, at 10:37 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
João Pais wrote:
Hi,
So I wanted to ask:
- which is the best way to install the new pd version? or is there
a way to add a repository where the newest version is available, so that synaptic updates it automatically?
i don't think so. it might be a good idea.
- 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)so "just" installing the package SHOUT install to /usr/lib you can however manually extract the content of the package using % dpkg -x Pd-*.deb /extraction/path
so you could install the package manually to /usr/local it is not recommended however
- if pd-van (puredata) and pd-ext are different programs, why is
the new .deb file colliding with 'puredata', that is, pd-van?
because they are not totally different programs. 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.
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.
I recently added the conflict with 'puredata' and it seems that
GDebi, the GUI .deb installer, doesn't really handle it well. It
just gives you an error about the conflict, but doesn't seem to allow
you to uninstall 'puredata'. Ideally, there would be a smoother way
to handle this, but I wonder if it is something that can be done by
editing the package description (control/debian)
- I have already changed some files / made copies of them in the same
folder. In case I install the new version on the same folder, will
only repeated files be overwritten? (f.e., "default.pdsettings" will be
for sure overwritten, but "default.pdsettings_backup" on the same
folder won't disappear?)if it does overwrite a configuration-file without asking you, then
this is clearly a bug.
dpkg should handle all that, it works for all other packages. It'll
prompt you if you want to overwrite, and it'll save the overwritten
version as .dpkg-old or someting like that.
.hc
mfga.sd IOhannes
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