Hi,

Is anyone running pd .48 on their Raspberry Pi? I really want to get that going on mine. I'm way back on .46.2 and I am trying to upgrade.

If I do "sudo apt-get install puredata" in command line, will it upgrade my current version of pd? Or install a new version? If so how do I just do an upgrade of my current version?

This is a general question, what I also want to find out is how to compile a downloaded version manually.

This is what I tried so far, in trying to get an version of pd .48 on my RPi 3:

I went to this link:

http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html

and went to "Older Stable Release, Newest not Yet Compiled"

and clicked on the Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 link.

I downloaded a folder of pd-0.48-1

in terminal i cd a path to that folder.

I read the install text which says to run: ./autogen.sh

I see autogen.sh in the folder. When I run ./autogen.sh i get back:

" ./autogen.sh: 21: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found"

Any suggestions as to what to do?

thank you in advance for any help.

Nick

@emviveros thanks for this tutorial - it worked perfectly on my rpi2 - i'm now running pd vanilla 0.49 on my rpi, very useful x

hey @robbielongcat and @emviveros. I was thinking about starting another thread on Raspberry Pi and Pure data. This disk image does work great, but I am sort of annoyed at how much work it is to connect Pd and Midi controllers using this disk image. You have to do all these commands in terminal using aconnect ( i've researched this for like months). On my old disk image (Raspian I think) you can just have it set and saved and Pd automatically connects to my midi controller when it opens.

I was wondering if there are other good OS options for Rpi and Pd. I was going to download a couple and experiment to see if there are any that automatically connect as my old disk image did. If any one has thoughts on this please chime in.

Nick

Great @nicnut Well I was working in another image.. Even smaller... With Pd 0.49 and Purr data pre installed.. I already did not tried to use midi in these... But we can start it and post another image with these hacks out of the box!

sorry to revive dead thread - just a huge thx to emviveros for the tuto. i have .51-0 on my pi now.

@dakota, yeah this thread was major help. I remember how crazy frustrating it was.

@dakota Nice!!!

Now I updated tutorial to compile 0.51-0 Pd version!

@emviveros Awesome. I was just about to research how to get .51 on my Pi. I only have .50 on it now.

thank you

@emviveros Hey. This tutorial worked for me. The only thing that didn't work was step 3.

I had to leave out the link to msp.ucsp.edu. etc.
I intalled everything else. They I went to the site on a browser and downloaded the file. Then I moved it to /home/pi/src then I did all the other steps, and pd opened.

In some crazy way I made a desktop file that opens to Pd, but I sort of did it on accident. Anyway thank you again for this great tutorial and now I am up to date.

i posted above but just wanted to say - again - how invaluable this resource is @emviveros. thank you so much.

if anyone would care to update this thread (for us non-developer-types) with a way to put a pd icon on the desktop, it would be a nice addition. not essential, but would really make this resource complete and a one-stop-shop.

j

Just a note that if you are trying to install pd 0.51-4 using Raspbian Bookworm,

sudo apt install libfftw3-3

in Step 3 of @emviveros's instructions will not work.

However, you can get around this by installing each of libfftw3-3's dependencies, which can be found here: https://packages.debian.org/buster/libfftw3-3

After this, you can proceed as normal and pd will install.

It's also worth noting at when pd is installed it goes to usr/local/bin (at least when I've done it). From here you can create a link to the pd-gui bash file to create a logo shortcut. If I have time I'll make instructions, for those who wants something a bit more user friendly...