On 08/01/2026 19:11, jyg@gumo.fr wrote:
Thanks for your answer.
With plugdata, the installation process breaks after failed attempt to create the first subfolder : "License". Only the files contained in the parent Audiolab folder have been copied.
i cannot speak about plugdata, as it has a completely independent implementation of the archive extraction.
what i can say is, that the "audiolab" package includes both a "LICENSE" file and a "License/" directory. this is not a problem on case-sensitive filesystems (like ext2/3/4 on linux), but it cannot work on case-insensitive filesystems (like FAT32, NTFS or HFS+). i don't think we can do anything about this on the Pd-GUI side (the "deken-plugin"), but our packaging helper (the "deken cmdline tool") should probably warn in this situtation.
I can more precisely describe the "non critical error" I get under
Windows 11 when installing audiolab(v0.71) using deken from puredata 0.56.0 :
- deken downloads the .dek file, extracts its ocntents, then copies
the files.
At this moment all files and subfolders are correctly installed in
the externals folder.
- However, I get a windows prompt asking me if I want to replace
identical files in the destination. (I choose "replace")
i'm not entirely sure how item-1 and item-2 relate. surely the prompt only shows up *before* deken extracts the contents, rather than afterwards.
or do you mean, that you are re-installing the library after a previous (at least partially successful) attempt?
by default, deken should try to "uninstall" a library before re-installing it. i see in your screencast that it writes something related to the deken logs ("Désinstallation de la vers[...]"), but the log window is obscured by the windows prompt (and the french doesn't help either), it would be nice to get a complete output of the deken log window (and the Pd console, if there's anything related).
an english version would be much preferred (change Pd's language to English in the preferences; it won't affect the windows prompt, but at least the deken messages will be normalized)
- I'm notified that access is to the target folder is denied. (I
click "retry")
- I go in a loop repeating §3 until I click "cancel"
as i understand it, the first time the prompt pops up you have the option "Faire ceci pour tous les elements actuels." which shoulddo this automatically.
- I get lots of messages in the deken console, for each file :
"Can't restore time : invalid arguments"
it' weird, but it doesn't strike me as an actual problem.
questions:
write the directory?
installations? (deken's "uninstall" is simply a deletion of the library folder; you could try to manually delete any "audiolab" folder before trying to re-install)
fmgdsar IOhannes