I installed freshly ubuntu 16.04.2 on a virtual machine and tested it. "apt-get build-dep" works. Are the things listed there all I need?
$ sudo apt-get build-dep puredata Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3,292 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
PS:
is there a "puredata" package for your (deb-based) distribution?
Sure.
Thanks, Jonghyun