Hallo, michael noble hat gesagt: // michael noble wrote:
Why, after downloading a package called "source" ( http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pure-data/Pd-0.40.3-extended.tar.bz2), do I then need to download the source via a cvs download script (Pd-0.40.3-extended/scripts/checkout-developer-layout.sh)? Or do I not need to download the latter and only make the former (which seems to fail for want of Gem, which I don't really want anyway)?
Personally I'd say, that if you don't need Gem, you may be someone who doesn't need many other externals, either, so maybe you want to go with a lean and mean install of Pd vanilla and only install other externals when you find that you really need them? That's what I do: I only use special purpose externals like Gem or pmpd or OSC (and Lua a lot). "Normal" stuff I do in plain Pd as abstractions, which has the advantage of being very cross-platform and without any dependencies.
Building Pd vanilla is a snap on Linux in whichever flavour. Just grab the latest source package from Miller's site, make sure you have the devel packages for ALSA and Tcl/Tk installed, then do "configure && make && make install".
Ciao
Frank