Hi,
I'm teaching PD this semester and because our labs are mostly G4, I'm trying to install PD on OS X.
I tried installing both Hans's new installer and Adam's installer. In both cases some things work OK, but things get installed in very strange places. A lot of libs and docs end up in places like Applications/pd0.37/usr/local, but also in the pd folder, etc.
I have a feeling that being relatively unfamiliar with Mac OS X I am not understanding completely where things should go. Does anyone have any advice?
Basically what I'm after is having a pd directory that contains all the pd items, e.g. abstractions, lib, doc, bin, externals, and to have a script that launches pd and the appropriate libraries and paths relative to that folder (rather than absolute paths.)
Many thanks!
- martin
My Pd installer is definitely beta. I have only tested it on two computers personally. So let's figure out what the problem is so I can fix the installer.
First question: did you change the install location or did you leave it as default?
It should install Pd into: /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib/pd
CVS externals into: /usr/local/lib/pd/extra /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference
And the Pd.command GUI launcher into: /Applications
Are most of the files installed there? Where else are they installed?
Also, I don't know if things will work right if you have both Adam's and my installers installed. You can use OSXPM to uninstall packages. You can get OSXPM here: ftp://us.osxgnu.org/pub/osxgnu/OSXPM/OSXPackageManager.sit
.hc
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Martin Dupras wrote:
Hi,
I'm teaching PD this semester and because our labs are mostly G4, I'm trying to install PD on OS X.
I tried installing both Hans's new installer and Adam's installer. In both cases some things work OK, but things get installed in very strange places. A lot of libs and docs end up in places like Applications/pd0.37/usr/local, but also in the pd folder, etc.
I have a feeling that being relatively unfamiliar with Mac OS X I am not understanding completely where things should go. Does anyone have any advice?
Basically what I'm after is having a pd directory that contains all the pd items, e.g. abstractions, lib, doc, bin, externals, and to have a script that launches pd and the appropriate libraries and paths relative to that folder (rather than absolute paths.)
Many thanks!
- martin
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I used your installer -- or saw it used -- on 2 Titanium and 1 G3 iBook. All three run Jaguar. Everything went smooth, although OSXPM could not cleanly remove older versions of pd-extra (on all 3) and pd-base on the iBook.
Nevertheless, Pd works very well, with zexy and friends.
There is a problem that's not related to the installer but rather the externals : Pd cannot find help-*.pd files for some packages.
For the impatient, I recommand the 3 steps installation proposed :
- Install and run OSXPM to remove any previous version of Pd.
- Install Tcl/Tk (8.4.1 preferred)
- Install Pd.
If you have special libraries or externals, be sure to put them in .pdrc before complaining they're not found ! ;o)
hellekin
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 15:45 America/New_York, hellekin wrote:
I used your installer -- or saw it used -- on 2 Titanium and 1 G3
iBook. All three run Jaguar. Everything went smooth, although OSXPM
could not cleanly remove older versions of pd-extra (on all 3) and
pd-base on the iBook.
Hmm, strange, I haven't had any problems uninstalling with OSXPM yet...
maybe Martin's path problem is caused by the pkgs being build on
10.2/Jaguar and installed on an older version of MacOS X.
Nevertheless, Pd works very well, with zexy and friends.
There is a problem that's not related to the installer but rather the
externals : Pd cannot find help-*.pd files for some packages.
This is due to the new help_symbol handling in 0.37. Almost every
external needs to be updated to work with 0.37. Some have been updated
already. As they are updated in CVS, the changes will automatically be
included in the next versions of the MacOS X installer.
.hc
For the impatient, I recommand the 3 steps installation proposed :
- Install and run OSXPM to remove any previous version of Pd.
- Install Tcl/Tk (8.4.1 preferred)
- Install Pd.
If you have special libraries or externals, be sure to put them in
.pdrc before complaining they're not found ! ;o)hellekin
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scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who
profit from scarcity."
-John Gilmore
If you have special libraries or externals, be sure to put them in .pdrc before complaining they're not found ! ;o)
by the way, is the .pdrc feature available for pd in os x?
r
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On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 06:43 America/New_York, roc wrote:
If you have special libraries or externals, be sure to put them in
.pdrc before complaining they're not found ! ;o)by the way, is the .pdrc feature available for pd in os x?
http://at.or.at/hans/
Yes, I use it all the time. All platforms but Windows use .pdrc.
.hc
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