On 2016-08-04 04:09, angelo.arcadi@virgilio.it wrote:
Any idea about why does this happen?
yes. pd will search a few standard paths, some of them being global others being tight to your pd installation. e.g.:
/usr/local/lib/pd-externals/ will be searched by any Pd installation (wherever it is installed; any version; any flavour: Pd-extended, Pd-vanilla, and probably even Pd-l2ork) run as whatever user
~/.local/lib/pd/extra/ will be searched by any Pd installation (wherever it is installed; any version; any flavour: Pd-extended, Pd-vanilla, and probably even Pd-l2ork), BUT ONLY for the current user.
${PDINSTANCE}/extra/pd/ will be search for any user, but only by the Pd installation in ${PDINSTANCE}
the last one means: if you have a Pd instance that lives in /usr/local (as is the default when you compile Pd yourself), it will look for externals in /usr/local/lib/pd/extra, however it will *not* look for them in /usr/lib/pd/extra/.
otoh, all the pd-libraries in Debian (and derivatives) are compiled for the Pd that comes with the distribution, which means that the they go to /usr/lib/
there are three ways to fix this:
- use the Pd from your distribution (it will search in /usr/lib/pd/extra)
OR
- add /usr/lib/pd/extra to your search-path
OR
- if you don't use /usr/local/lib/pd-externals (i don't know of anybody
who does) you could make it a symlink to /usr/lib/pd/extra.
the last one is probably the easiest to enable all system-installed pd-libraries for any Pd installement on your system run by any user.
it might give weirdo warnings though, if you ever want to use the system installed Pd - nothing tragic, just the odd "duplicate 'foo' library found" warning when opening the help-browser.
fgmasdr IOhannes
PS: totally OT, but would it be possible to use a mail-client that properly sets the "References"/"In-reply-to" headers, so your emails appear as part of the thread?