Max Neupert wrote:
so, how do you recommend installing pd with some of the most important libaries on an ubuntu (debian) machine then?
one simple way should be: install puredata/gem/... via synaptics. this should resolve a lot of dependencies for hc's installer.
then you can install hc's installer (if you want to, because (e.g.) the ubuntu versions deem you too outdated) the ubuntu/debian-packages and hc's installer should happily live together on one machine (the official packages will install themselves into /usr/ while hc's installer should go into /usr/local; since /usr/local/bin has usually a higher priority than /usr/bin you will get pd-extended when you type "pd" into your xterm.
what i actually did was: first i looked into the synaptics manager, found pd. there was no info which version nor if it's bare pd or whatever, so i looked over to HCS's
this is because "pd" is the old deprecated package name; the new one is called "puredata" (and "pd" is a virtual package provided by "puredata" to get dependencies right in the stage of transition)
site because i run have good experiences with his release on osx. so i tried to install this one and could not get Gem to run either even after installing libmpeg, lib imagemagick and whatever else was missing even make itself seemed not to be there.
iirc, your last problem was with "glDeleteProgramsNV"; i guess that they only package that would help you here is the nvidia-binary drivers (of course you will need an nvidia card to make any use of them). if you are using some other gfx-card, you will have to recompile Gem yourself.
this should be quite simple:
Debian-based system, this is as simple as: #> apt-get build-dep gem
1a) make sure you have automake and autoconf installed (it might be that automake is not yet in the build-dependencies of ubuntu's gem)
get recent source of Gem (from CVS!) and unpack them
optional(!): get some more packages for building Gem (there is a
readme somewhere)
if this is too complicated, get a cheap nvidia-card and it should run.
mfg,asdr. IOhannes