Hi everyone, and thanks for all the great resources scattered on the web for learning Pd. It's helped me make things I like, and made me a better programmer.

I've tried unsuccessfully to install a current version of pd-vanilla several times over the last couple years. I end up w pd-extended, or now, pd-l2ork. I'd like to investigate Deken and get more familiar with pd itself, so I'd like to give vanilla a go.

The problem starts with the default Ubuntu repositories. They have 0.46.7-3. They have for awhile. Deken was first included in pd 0.47, so I can't use it

So, at the puredata.info downloads page, I click the link to the Debian packages.

Moving down to the puredata_0.48.0-1_all amd 64 .deb file, I download it, and open it in Ubuntu's package installer. Watching the virtual terminal in Package Install, as well as from checking the help page within the new pd install, tells me I'm still installing 0.46.7-3.

What's going on, and what's next?

*more importantly, it's downloading the 0.46 versions of all packages. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I've spent a lot of time being frustrated with this kind of thing also. If you're not savvy at compiling software, it can be very hard to keep up to date with the latest version of PD.

I asked once about why the repositories aren't up to date, and it turns out that this is out of our hands. Ubuntu only accepts updates to repositories every so often, in the interest of stability (can't remember the details). So if you want the latest version of Vanilla for Ubuntu, you're going to have to download the source files (top link in the page you shared) and compile it yourself.

Luckily, this has gotten MUCH easier in 0.48 with the updated readme file. I was able to do it without any difficulties this time (and I'm not an expert at these things). Just follow the instructions carefully, and report back if you have any difficulties.

Thanks Liam, but it's deeper than that.

I just downloaded the Vanilla 0.48 source.
The numbers "48" do not appear once in the INSTALL.txt. The numbers "47" appear 3 times.

Is there something I'm missing here?

So here's the error message I get on $ make. Nothing at all exotic about the install (Lubuntu, 16.04). Jack installed, but currently just using pulseaudio.

fatal error: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:709: recipe for target 'portaudio/src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.lo' failed
make[2]: *** [portaudio/src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/greg/pd-0.48-0/portaudio'
Makefile:496: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/greg/pd-0.48-0'
Makefile:420: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Could you try adding temporarily KXStudio repositories and reinstall PureData ? Careful not to update anything else and mess your system .

Thanks all.
I got all TLDR with the compile instructions. I just ran:
$ cd path/to/pd (except where I really downloaded it)
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

Read all the way through and followed along, everything but JACK worked, then got everything but some realtime scheduling to work on a second attempt.
Just following the frickin' directions.

Thanks guys, esp. Liam!