I just got a Raspberry Pi 3 model B. I previously used the Pi 2 with Miller's custom-raspbian build and had no problems, amazingly enough! With this new one, however, I cannot even get the Pi to boot. I am guessing that I need a newer version of the OS than the one I have used in the past (from the Pd-La site). Any recommendations? what are people using for this?

@Coalman I installed PD without any issues on my RPi3 running Jessie. It's included in the repository:

sudo apt-get install puredata

I'm struggling to get l2Ork to run at the moment, but maybe because of the ArmV8? not sure if it is supported yet - but that's another story!

I'm having a similar issue with my Raspberry Pi3, model B.

I used sudo apt-get install puredata and now have version 0.46.2 installed. I know that's old, as on my Mac I have version 0.47.1.

Is there some command line to upgrade Pd?

I tried sudo apt-get upgrade puredata and it seems like every application and the operating system on my Pi was upgraded, but i still have Pd version 0.46.2.

If someone knows the command line to upgrade to the most recent version of Pd I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank You.

@nicnut How similar an issue? Is it preventing your Pi from booting? 0.46.2 is probably the latest stable version available for the Pi

@nicnut actually, looking at Miller Puckette's site, 47.1 is the latest stable version as you say... I guess that hasn't made it to the repo yet

@ginko Well it's not that similar in issue, as I have my Pi running and Pd works, just having a hard time updating to latest version. I meant it's similar in that I can't get the current version on my Pi.

Maybe there's another way besides using command line to update the software. If anyone has insight into this please let me know.

thanks,

@nicnut I'm not an expert on this by any means but the 0.47.1 is listed as being built for Raspberry Pi V2, ArmV7 - the RPi3 has an ArmV8. It looks to me like the latest PD Vanilla just hasn't been compiled for the RPi3 yet.

However, if you navigate here: [http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html](link url) there is a download and installation instructions can be found in the manual on the same page.

0.46.2 is working well for me so far, working on additive synthesis and it isn't denting the CPU at all

this is good information. I had all working fine on the Pi 2...just encountering some roadblocks with the Pi 3, but I will post solutions once I have them. In the meantime, this discussion is really helping out!

indeed it looks like version 47 isn't availiable from the repository yet. the problem was when sudo apt-get install puredata some important packages were missed. I tried it again and as an update with the same result. I ended up installing everything using the GUI in the newfangled OS to install... which is cool, but I suspect that the bloat is on the increase...anyway it appears to all function now. so, super great! thanks for all the pointers!
so, for anyone else who is interested Rapsbian Jessie and 0.46.2 currently working well....

Unless you are running Debian testing branch (Sid) there is a good chance that you will not see anything near the current version in the standard repos. You could temporarily switch to the Sid repos to grab it, or you could just go here for a downloadable pre-compliled package for your system:

https://pkgs.org/download/puredata

@NoDSP Do you know what command line code I can use to install that version of Pd from the link you provided? I'm still quite a novice with Linux. I just know apt-get install.

thank you.

Yep,

dpkg -i (filemame).deb

to uninstall:

dpkg -r [package name]

BTW if you need any more of those commands they are pretty easy to bring up with a search engine -- that's what I just did because I can't actually remember the last time I did it that way. Guess I'm turning into one of those desktop GUI loosers.

@NoDSP Ok excellent I'll try this out. thank you!