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

hi,

a little update.

I updated the system of my raspberry Pi.

then I did

sudo apt-get install automake

Then I cd'd back to the pd 0.48-1 folder in my downloads folder and ran ./autogen.sh

I got a bunch of errors. If anyone wants me to type them all out, if that would be helpful let me know.

the last line was:

autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

If anyone has suggestions of what else to try to get pd .48 installed on RPi 3 please let me know, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tutorial to compile Pure-data 0.51-4 on Raspberry Pi with Jack support:

STEP1. Open Terminal:
Ctrl+Alt+T

STEP2. Creating folder to organize compilation (optional):

mkdir src

STEP3. Enter in src folder / install dependencies / download pd source code / unpack downloaded file:

cd src
sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libtool gettext git libasound2-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev tcl tk
wget http://msp.ucsd.edu/Software/pd-0.51-4.src.tar.gz
tar -xzf pd-0.51-4.src.tar.gz

STEP4. Compiling Pd:

cd pd-0.51-4
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-jack --enable-fftw
make

STEP5. Confirming if compilation are ok:

cd bin
./pd

STEP6. If it run, you can install Pd in your raspbian:

cd ..
sudo make install

It don't install fancy icons with desktop integration, if you need that, you need to do it manually.

hope it help!

Changelog:
2021.05.24

• update to compile newest Pd version (Pd-0.51-4)

2020.09.16

• update to compile newest Pd version (Pd-0.51-2)

2020.06.17

• update tutorial to compile newest Pd version (Pd-0.51-0)

2018.09.25

• remove clone pure-data git repository step to download Pd-0.49 from miller's site in STEP3.

• unpack file downlaoded via command line in STEP3

Thank you @emvieros for the tutorial.

I followed it. I got to the same place I got yesterday.

when I did ./autogen.sh it said a few things, then that permission was denied. I then tried "sudo ./autogen.sh" and I got a long list of errors.

I took a photo of the terminal and posted it. If anyone has any suggestions, or other methods of installing pd .48 on my Raspberry Pi 3 I would be forever greatful.

thank you for your help.

Nick

Very weird.... Ok..! I can see...!! You are in /usr/lib/src/ folder!!! That can be the issue...!

Create src folder in your user directory... By default on raspbian: /home/pi

How about giving a chance to Pd 0.49 recently released... (??) I edited the tutorial above with these version.. Lot of nice features are with it. I tested it now in my Pi2 with the last Raspian and it works like a charm!

@emviveros thank you so much for your help, and optimism that I can install this. If I can get .48 installed I would be amazed, but if I could I would try .49.

I navigated to the folder you suggested and tried to do the install. I got the same reply as last time, and I'm still hung up on the ./autogen.sh step. To make sure I'm not crazy, I checked what version of a Pi I have and it's a Pi 3, model B V1.2

If you installed .49 then at least I know this is possible, I don't know why this is so difficult. Something must be missing. Maybe I don't have something installed, or i'm unpacking it wrong or something.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know!!

I will try your tutorial step by step and see if I can get different results.

thanks. Nick

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@emviveros I tried your tutorial step by step. When I tried step 3 I got this response:

"E: Command line option 'x' [from -xzf] is not known

maybe it's supposed to be -xvzf ?

Anyway, I downloaded a new version of pd-0.49-0. I uncompressed it and put it in the scr folder. I tried ./autogen.sh again.

I thought it might work this time, as the computer was thinking about it for awhile, then eventually I got the same error messages.

Let me know if anyone has any other ideas I should try.

Thank You! Nick

@nicnut don't know what's happend in your system. Something in your image are very very weird....
Maybe some kind of witchcraft!!

Please confirm if all dependencies for pd compilation are installed correctly...
And your system updated, in Terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Are you using Noobs install version??? It can affect results.

If you are, I recommend to make a new image using RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP.

To flash it in SD card I recommend use Etcher. See the official documentation.

tar file are right.. the v argument only put tar in verbose mode...

@emviveros Yes i think it must be some kind of witchcraft!! Because I really don't know what else it could be.

I did the update and upgrade. It looked like it installed a lot of things. I restarted and tried ./autogen.sh again and got the same result as all the other times.

I uploaded an image saying what my OS is. It might be Noobs, I'm not sure, but I think it's the image that came with my PI.

It would be a shame for me to have to start with a new disk image, as I have so many awesome things in this Pi, like a battery shield, LED power indicator, LCD screen, and soundcard.

If I can't figure this out maybe I'll install your image on another SD card and try installing on that. If it works then I'll know what the problem is. I've only used apt get for all my installations, I've never been able to compile pd, but I really wish I could.

OK, this is starting to get super frustrating and time consuming.

I downloaded Raspbian Stretch with Desktop disk image. I wrote it to a brand new SD card.

After all the time that took, I updated the system, I downloaded/installed autotools and autoconf.

Then I downloaded pd 0.49. I attempted to install that and when I did ./autogen.sh I got the exact same errors as I got on my other disk image. See the screen shots above.

I'm trying to not get down about this. It's just a software update, how impossible can this be? I've been working on this on and off since Saturday.

Can anyone please ideas of what to try? I am guessing it is not my disk image now.

What the could it be? I am going to walk away from my computer and read a book now.

Please Help. THanks, Nick

Is it possible that my version of Automake is too old? I just checked, and I have Automake 1.14.1 from 2013. I think I used apt-get to get this.

I might try updating it and see what happens. I see version 1.16 from this year. Hopefully I don't need special software to install from tar.gz

nick

I don't know what happened... Try it... I make a fresh Raspbian with Pd and Purr data installed on it, I will share it when upload ends. Perhaps it can work.

@nicnut I tested this Raspian with Pd and Purr Data installed image. I tested it in my RPi2 and it should work with SD Cards bigger than 8 Gb.

I'm crossing my fingers for you!!! Now it is my last chance to help you! hehehehe

@emviveros thank you so much for all your help and advice!!

I hope this works. I tried updating automake and had problems and errors with that too. I can't seem to install anything in the tarball method. I hope your disk image works. I'll try it out and let you know what happens.

@nicnut Tarball seems to be a problem with Stretch...... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=207529 so unzipping elsewhere might be the only option. You might find more help on that forum for your problem.

It will be my problem at some point too.! But there are many changes in Stretch that can trip you up....... https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html...... in particular 5.3 > 5.3.2

It is interesting that the Pi started life as a learning tool for Noobs...... and at this rate will end its life as a brick that can only be opened by experts.

Good luck!
David.

@emviveros thank you for the disk image! it works and I have pd .49 on there, plus all the other pd related stuff I saw on there. Thank You!

I can see how much I have been missing out on using pd .46. Now I can use the dekken search feature too. I will have to install all this other stuff I have installed on my other Pi disk image so this will take me awhile. Hopefully that will work out.

@whale-av I totally agree. Using a RPi can be easy and a very affordable way to have a computer. But if it is this difficult so simply install a new version of the software something is really wrong. I can use apt-get to install software, but any other method has been impossible for me. If I didn't get the disk image from @emviveros I wouldn't be able to run pd .49 and that is very unfortunate. I wish apt-get would be more up to date, and that the Pi in general was way more user friendly. Everything takes me forever to figure out how to do on the Pi.

Anyway, I am very thankful for the advice available on this forum.

@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.