Hello!
I discovered pd yesterday (0.42.3-0.pm.1 for openSuSE) and I am amazed! I created some small "mini installations" by playing with it and reading the very nice tutorial at pd-tutorial.com and the doc that comes with it. Unfortunately when I tried to use [expr] it took me 2 hours to find out by experimenting, that in order to use it I have to start pd as
pd -lib /complete/path/to/expr~
It was neither mentioned in the tutorial, nor in the doc that comes with it, nor anywhere else (where I searched). Are there any environment variables for these paths? Could you point out a URL to me that covers these basics? I would be grateful!
Best Regards
Alexandros
Alexandros Droseltis wrote:
Hello!
I discovered pd yesterday (0.42.3-0.pm.1 for openSuSE) and I am amazed! I created some small "mini installations" by playing with it and reading the very nice tutorial at pd-tutorial.com and the doc that comes with it. Unfortunately when I tried to use [expr] it took me 2 hours to find out by experimenting, that in order to use it I have to start pd as
pd -lib /complete/path/to/expr~
usually you don't have to: the binary for [expr] (expr.pd_linux) lives in /usr/lib/pd/extra/ (being a link to /usr/lib/pd/extra/expr~/expr.pd_linux)
if it doesn't work out of the box, your installation is somehow broken. did you install it yourself or did you use a package? which filesystem is Pd installed on?
It was neither mentioned in the tutorial, nor in the doc that comes with it, nor anywhere else (where I searched). Are there any environment variables for these paths? Could you point out a URL to me that covers these basics? I would be grateful!
look at the doc/1.manual/ look at http://puredata.info/ ask on this list :-)
fgmasdr IOhannes
And also here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/AdvancedConfig
D.
IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
It was neither mentioned in the tutorial, nor in the doc that comes with it, nor anywhere else (where I searched). Are there any environment variables for these paths? Could you point out a URL to me that covers these basics? I would be grateful!
look at the doc/1.manual/ look at http://puredata.info/ ask on this list :-)
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:53 -0300, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
Alexandros Droseltis wrote:
Hello!
I discovered pd yesterday (0.42.3-0.pm.1 for openSuSE) and I am amazed! I created some small "mini installations" by playing with it and reading the very nice tutorial at pd-tutorial.com and the doc that comes with it. Unfortunately when I tried to use [expr] it took me 2 hours to find out by experimenting, that in order to use it I have to start pd as pd -lib /complete/path/to/expr~
usually you don't have to: the binary for [expr] (expr.pd_linux) lives in /usr/lib/pd/extra/ (being a link to /usr/lib/pd/extra/expr~/expr.pd_linux)
if it doesn't work out of the box, your installation is somehow broken. did you install it yourself or did you use a package? which filesystem is Pd installed on?
Thank you for your answer. I used the RPM package 0.42.3-0.pm.1-x86_64 for openSuSE from the Packman repository. Pd is installed on ext3 (/dev/sda1, mounted on /).
look at the doc/1.manual/ look at http://puredata.info/ ask on this list :-)
Ok, thanks! ;)
Alexandros
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