On 2/3/20 1:53 PM, Jérôme Abel wrote:
Hi,
I think a part of my question (How to share Pd.0.50 and Gem 0.94 on Linux ?) was quite the same.
I understand that the suggestion is to use "apt" instead of deken on Linux. Just for Gem ? The other libraries seem to work fine with deken.
use "apt" (or whatever package manager comes with your distribution) for everything you can. it is simply better.
On my Xubuntu machine, "apt" shows older versions of Pure Data (0.48.1-3) and Gem (0.93.3-13), even if I install pd-deken-apt.
yes. that's expected. apt *guarantees* that the (apt-)installed version of Gem will work with the (apt-)installed version of Pd. this is something that deken simply cannot do.
for instance, try installing ofelia on a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu via deken.
most externals are trivial (no external libraries; using only C with its well defined ABI). some are not, e.g. Gem (a largish number of external libraries; written in C++, which has a not-so-stable and well-defined ABI).
for those complex externals, deken is just not good enough.
gfdsar IOhannes