Morning,

hmm,

Hmm indeed.

$ dpkg -L puredata-core | grep bin /usr/bin/puredata

Cheers for the grep hint (not quite got to grips with the power of grep yet). With that I get: /usr/bin/puredata /usr/share/puredata/doc/5.reference/sigbinops-help.pd /usr/share/puredata/doc/5.reference/otherbinops-help.pd /usr/lib/puredata/bin /usr/lib/puredata/bin/pd /usr/lib/puredata/bin/pd-watchdog

Which is good info I think... I had wanted to dual boot with the old puredyne install which is on the same drive but separate partition. Presumed that the puredyne/ubuntu install wouldn't mess with the new debian install but perhaps/seemingly that is not the case?

so if you have puredata-core installed and there is no /usr/bin/puredata then something is wrong....

For sure:)

the "whole thing" should only be "puredata" (+ dependencies). probably you want to try a more interactive package manager, like "aptitude", where you can inspect the exact versions that are installed and that are going to be installed/upgraded easily.

Is with aptitude. I meant reinstalling the whole freaking kit and

caboodle! Will stave off the despondency, uninstall Pd from the puredyne install and TRY AGAIN.

Cheers for all your help with this,

Julian