I had to install pd-extended on a Ubuntu Lucid box and the .deb listed in the download section still has a tk8.4 dependency, which in turns seems to give a font problem [1]? I downloaded the source tar.gz from the same page, compiled with the autobuild script and the generated deb doesn't have the dependecy any more.
Lorenzo.
[1] See: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2010-12/085104.html
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
I had to install pd-extended on a Ubuntu Lucid box and the .deb listed in the download section still has a tk8.4 dependency, which in turns seems to give a font problem [1]?
What I do is recompile the core of Pd-Extended 42 myself. It takes 5 minutes, and then I combine it with a set of precompiled externals from a deb file. This allows me to use Tcl/Tk 8.5, because Tcl/Tk 8.4 is way too old. I think that everybody on Linux deserves to use Tcl/Tk 8.5 fonts with Pd-Extended 42.
However, the problem that I have with Tk 8.4 is just the antialias.
Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on Linux also have an annoying IEM font size difference, but this does not affect the main font of the patches.
Helpfile screenshots that I made were all made using Tk 8.5, Pd-Extended 42, and Ubuntu 9.10. For example, it looks like this :
http://gridflow.ca/help/%23io.x11-help.html
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On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:52 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
I had to install pd-extended on a Ubuntu Lucid box and the .deb listed in the download section still has a tk8.4 dependency, which in turns seems to give a font problem [1]?
What I do is recompile the core of Pd-Extended 42 myself. It takes 5 minutes, and then I combine it with a set of precompiled externals from a deb file. This allows me to use Tcl/Tk 8.5, because Tcl/Tk 8.4 is way too old. I think that everybody on Linux deserves to use Tcl/Tk 8.5 fonts with Pd-Extended 42.
However, the problem that I have with Tk 8.4 is just the antialias.
Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on Linux also have an annoying IEM font size difference, but this does not affect the main font of the patches.
Helpfile screenshots that I made were all made using Tk 8.5, Pd-Extended 42, and Ubuntu 9.10. For example, it looks like this :
The Pd-extended 0.42.5 release on newer Debian/Ubuntu releases use Tcl/Tk 8.5
.hc
On 04/19/2011 09:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:15 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The Pd-extended 0.42.5 release on newer Debian/Ubuntu releases use Tcl/Tk 8.5
which releases are those ?
Maverick? Lucid? Squeeze? I forget.
not on lucid AFAICS, which is a PITA..
cheers, _y
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:26 PM, yvan volochine yvan.pd@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/19/2011 09:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:15 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The Pd-extended 0.42.5 release on newer Debian/Ubuntu releases use
Tcl/Tk 8.5
which releases are those ?
Maverick? Lucid? Squeeze? I forget.
not on lucid AFAICS, which is a PITA..
cheers, _y
After I brought this issue up last time, Hans fixed it in the nightly builds for lucid, but that was after the release version. Unfortunately, the nightly builds have since moved on to the 0.43.x release cycle.
-michael
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:56 +0900, "michael noble" looplog@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:26 PM, yvan volochine yvan.pd@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/19/2011 09:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:15 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The Pd-extended 0.42.5 release on newer Debian/Ubuntu releases use
Tcl/Tk 8.5
which releases are those ?
Maverick? Lucid? Squeeze? I forget.
not on lucid AFAICS, which is a PITA..
cheers, _y
After I brought this issue up last time, Hans fixed it in the nightly builds for lucid, but that was after the release version. Unfortunately, the nightly builds have since moved on to the 0.43.x release cycle.
-michael
Building Pd-extended on Debian/Ubuntu is pretty straightforward, so you could just roll your own package. The directions are here:
http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Debian
After you've installed the deps, just 'apt-get remove tk-dev tcl-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev" then "apt-get install tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev" and build it.
.hc
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