hello

i found getting pd running on Ubuntu EXTREMELY easy.

user may use synaptic package manager:

1.) search "Tk8.4", install Tk8.4 & Tk8.4-dev 2.) search "tcl8.4", install tcl8.4 & tcl8.4-dev 3.) search "alsa", install libalsaound-dev [libalsa is already installed]

download and untar pd-0.40-2

./configure --enable-alsa make, make install

pp

---- Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:

Unfortuntaely, Pd on ubuntu isn't quite that easy to install yet.
But we are close.

.hc

On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Thomas Jeppesen wrote:

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I think I know where you are comming from ;)

Thanks for the good and quick feedback I've gotten through the day.
It has helped me a lot. I installed Ubuntu today and it worked like a charm. I follow the
advice to stick with it, at least for a few months :)

Cheers all! Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Haefeli" reduzierer@yahoo.de To: "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use?

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On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:06 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:

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On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.

i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but
sometimes much easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.

Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff, that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from
Ubuntu to Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to
Debian. In the end, it's a matter of taste.

i don't want to be an ass and please don't get me wrong, when i hook into it again. i fully agree with you. i started doing linux with debian, too. though in the end, all problems i had turned out to be manageable (and based on my lack of knowledge), i wish i had started with ubuntu first retrospectively, just because you have to make less decisions in order to get a working box, that 'just works' in
everyday life. i dare say, that ubuntu is the most easy os to install at
all, not only the easiest linux. when starting with linux, i had to realize that i hardly know
anything about computers. i didn't even know, what a window manager is
(least of all, that also windows uses a window manager, but the fact that
windows tries to hide essential stuff from the user, so that he/she stays unaware about computers is anothe story) and that i was supposed to choose and install one, if i want to have a graphical interface.
quite many steps were involved, until i had a running pd. i believe, in ubuntu much lesser steps are needed until pd runs.
for a sligthly more advanced user, many steps seem to be obvious and are
done fast, but for an innocent, naked, virgin noob (sorry for the strange wording), like i was two and a half years ago, each step can be a
real pain. of course, at the end you don't have more or less possibilities in
one or the other.

just my 4cents (now, i'm broke :-)

roman

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