• oliver oliver@klingt.org [2020-03-05 10:13]:

Hi, dear list !

Just tried linux MINT (32bits) on an old laptop.

All is working well so far, but i can't seem to get MINT to install the most recent version of PD with apt.

i tried tweaking the apt sources but all i can get with apt-get is version 0.48.

Does anybody here have some experience with PD-0.50 and MINT ?

Do i have to compile PD myself if i want the latest version or is there something i can do with the source list, that i have missed so far ?

Thanks for any hints !

Does $ apt list --all-versions puredata-core or $ aptitude versions help?

On 05.03.20 10:03, oliver wrote:

Hi, dear list !

Just tried linux MINT (32bits) on an old laptop.

All is working well so far, but i can't seem to get MINT to install the most recent version of PD with apt.

that's because MINT is just horribly outdated. the current release is based on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04LTS). the first release of Ubuntu that features Pd-0.50 is Eoan (19.10) (Pd-0.50 was released in 2019-08)

i wonder why people actually choose MINT in the first place. it seems to me, the target audience is people whose priority is a slick design and a no-frills environment. the latter is somewhat opposite to wanting the latest and greatest release of project under active development (not that Pd development moes very fast).

i guess it's recommended as a beginner's distribution.

(32bits) on an old laptop

is there any special reason to install an i386 OS these days? how "old" is your laptop? i think i bought my first amd64 around 2004 or so. these days most mainstream systems that are compatible with i386 are also compatible with amd64. so why bother?

i tried tweaking the apt sources but all i can get with apt-get is version 0.48.

so how did you tweak?

Does anybody here have some experience with PD-0.50 and MINT ?

Do i have to compile PD myself if i want the latest version or is there something i can do with the source list, that i have missed so far ?

well, you *could* add apt-sources for Ubuntu/eoan (or Debian/buster+backports). but i'm not sure whether i would recommend doing so to a linux newbie (i have no idea how experienced *you* are; but if MINT was chosen because of its appeal to beginners, that might be a blocker).

if that doesn't help, you could compile (and install :-)) the Debian-packages yourself. there has been a recent thread (including step-by-step instructions) about this: https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2020-01/126687.html

asdmr IOhannes