On 2016-08-11 00:38, oliver wrote:
Why Pd does not allow to load recursively also the subfolders of a folder indicated in the Preferences->Path? It would be great since one could just add the path /usr/lib/pd/extra...
ah yes, the joys of recursively adding / to the recursively searched paths...
actually this should also be automatically loaded, without the need for the user to setup the Path in the Preferences, since deken automatically places the externals there.
ah no, it does not. deken *suggests* placing the objects into paths that are searched for by the currently running installation of Pd. it also prefers to install it into a per-user specific directory (~/.local/lib/pd/extra) rather than a system-wide dir (/usr/lib/pd/extra), mostly because most users do not have write-access to the system-wide dirs. also note, that a Pd installed as /usr/local/bin/pd will *never automatically* search /usr/lib/pd/extra (and deken running inside this Pd will never suggest to install anything into /usr/lib/pd/extra)
i think your trouble started when i suggested that you could install Pd-libraries via the system package manager and use the deken-apt plugin to integrate the system package manger into deken. this does not go together well with a self-compiled Pd residing in /usr/local/, as the system package manager explicitely installs packages into /usr/lib/pd and is really meant for a Pd installation provided by the system package manager as well.
so it's probably time to reverse my suggestion of using apt and/or deken-apt together with your self-compiled Pd.
the proper options i see are to either use a self-compiled Pd XOR a system-provided Pd consistently. #1 totally switch to self-compiled Pd
- remove pd-deken-apt and apt-installed pd packages.
- remove /usr/lib/pd/extra from your Pd-preferences
- install externals the (native) deken way, hoping that somebody has
already uploaded binaries for your architecture, and if not, do that yourself...
#2 switch to a system installed Pd
- remove your locally compiled Pd from /usr/local/
- remove /usr/lib/pd/extra from your Pd-preferences
- install & use the "puredata" package provided by your distribution
#2a assuming that the reason for using a self-compiled Pd in the first place was that your distro lacks a recent-enough Pd (e.g. you'd like to use Pd-0.47 and your ubuntu only comes with Pd-0.46), you can pretty easily create "backported" debs for your system. since i have explained that a number of times on this list, i will skip it for now and refer you to the list-archives, e.g. [1] (obviouly you have to change the actual version number according to what is currently cooking [2])
hjm IOhannes
[1] https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2014-11/108380.html [2] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/puredata