did you set up your package manager to also install all suggested packages?
no, I'm just doing apt-get install puredata
you can also just install puredata-core, which doesn't even depend on
puredata-gui, only recommends it.
This one still installs GEM for me, which is fine, I can just delete it, but I'm trying and worried about learning how installing Pd on linux works. Like how you can install just vanilla, and which package comes with what externals and why.