On 8/9/21 2:07 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
hopefully i'll be able to provide a fix in the Ubuntu/focal repositories in the next few days.
ok, we are almost there. however, *your* help is required to make the final steps.
a fixed version of puredata-extra (which provides the failing external) is going to make it into ubuntu/focal.
because focal has been released a while ago, we need some feedback that the fixed package is indeed working, before it will become available for all focal-users.
if any of you are using Ubuntu/focal, i would ask you (very nicely) to check whether the proposed fix works for you (and does not introduce any new bugs).
how?
- install the "puredata" package and check whether you can actually
reproduce the problem (not being able to load any (or all) of [bonk~], [choice], [fiddle~] or [sigmund~])
- enable the "focal-proposed" repository please follow the official instructions on how to do that: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
- install the "puredata-extra" package from the "focal-proposed"
repository. on the cmdline this would be as simple as:
apt update && apt install puredata-extra/focal-proposed
using synaptic or other GUI-tools is probably even simpler.
- check that you can now load (and use) all of [bonk~], [choice],
[fiddle~] or [sigmund~]
- finally (and please do not miss that): please report your success (or
failure) at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1939293
Ubuntu really wants user-feedback in order to let packages into an LTS-release. so if you are running Ubuntu/focal - even if you do not use the Ubuntu packages for Pd¹ - please help you fellow users by confirming that the fix works.
gfmadrs IOhannes
¹ if you normally do not use the Ubuntu packages, please make sure that
- when performing these tests - you *do* use the official packages.