On my Debian System I installed the package pure data.
$ aptitude show puredata
will tell you that "This is a metapackage that depends on all components
of the core of Pd".
and corresponds to Pd vanilla, but is being broken up into several
packages.
Don't tell your apt(itude) to install suggested packages automatically.
This is why it wants to install externals which you don't need.
hmm, ok, this seems to be it.
It should only install packages that "puredata" depends on. Which these
are can be seen with above command for example. None of these include
externals apart from the ones included with vanilla. See the
documentation of your package manager to diasable the "suggested"
packages.
it might be clear that I'm completely clueless on linux and I'm just using it because I want to know how to work with Pd in Linux and test my externals in linux. So, where is this documentation?
thanks