HI Frank,<br><br>Thanks for taking the time to look at this!<br><br>a/&nbsp; Some more information that might help: after I uninstalled pd-extended 0.38, I reinstalled the OS (ubuntu feisty 7.04). <br><br>So the autobuild was installed on a fresh OS.<br><br>b/ I am&nbsp; still not succeeding with the pd install. Following your instructions, and performing configure &amp;&amp; make in ../pd/src, i received the message below:<br><br>&gt;&gt;Assembler messages:<br>Fatal error: can't create ../obj/g_canvas.o: Permission denied<br>make: *** [g_canvas.o] Error 1&lt;&lt;<br><br>and, of course, pd would not start.<br><br>please, any more instructions????<br><br><br>thankyou very much for your help,<br>Ruth<br><br><br><br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
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