while you certainly have your own reasons to self-compile Pd, I just wanted to point out that Bionic Beaver already comes with Pure Data 0.48-1.
OMG, this is the best news I've heard all week.
if you are talking about Tk: not very strange, i think.
I just meant it's strange because I don't remember having to install it on previous versions of Ubuntu. But I'll take an up-to-date repository over this any day.