A little background...

I've been playing with sound/music creation under linux for a few years now using various JACK based tools. My bread and butter have been the specimen sampler, the hydrogen drum machine, ALSA modular synth, and sooperlooper.

I've messed around with csound a bit and become frustrated.

Anyway, I have a good understanding of digital audio and sound in general (I'm an electrical engineering undergrad). I'm a total puredata newbie though, and looking to get started.

I have puredata installed, but don't really know how to take the plunge. Are there examples that come with the ubuntu package? Any recommended online tutorials?

Thanks.

yeah. linux is great. takes a bit of work to get into it, but as they say 'no pain no gain'.
PD of course runs really well. i had to use OSX again the other day and i forgot how glitchy and slow the gui is compared to linux.

I use osx, but my pure:dyne stick arrived today, so i've got linux and PD on my eee and any other computer i hijack.

hello team,

New to PD, first post on the forum...

...and yes, using pd on ubuntu, 8.10 64 bit.
Thanks to this forum and this post:
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1947-extended-amd64

I having lots of issues with GEM though.
Can't open any video format and image files open but crash the session

Anybody been successful using GEM on 64 bit ubuntu??

Hi,
New on this forum...
Linux +1

Linux +1

Ubuntu 8.04

I'm totally new to digital audio production, so PD has been cool for learning some of the fundamentals about sound synthesis (like, what's an oscillator? what happens when you add two oscillators together?).

Some occasional frustration when I can't figure out if things don't work because they don't work, or because I typed a flag in caps at the command line and that sort of thing. It's all a big adventure, though, and I'm learning a lot at the end of the day.

Linux User ++

I use PD mainly under UBUNTU (8.04) and I think it works very well!!!

i'd like to switch to ubuntu as well, but i can't get PD workin properly. (xubuntu 8.10)
if i download it directly from the webpage and install with gdebi, then i get "/Gem.pd_linux: libmpeg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" ....well, gem.pd_linux is definetly there. (or is libmpeg.so.1 the problem?)

i also tried "sudo apt-get install puredata", it only installs vanilla, but i need the libraries!

if i do it with synaptics, audio doesn't seem to work and it doesn't show up in the menu. if i start it by typing "pd", i get no error messages. but if i tell a single .pd-file to open with pd, gem doesn't work again.

i'm confused, i hope my text wasn't as confusing and you could understand.
is there a linux-noob-proof way of installing, or should i maybe try with hardy 8.4 or another distribution? thanks

hey,
DO AT YOUR OWN RISK
You could try adding these repositories to your etc/apt/sources.lst :

#pd-extended repo
deb http://otherside.servebeer.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://otherside.servebeer.com/ubuntu intrepid main

And then install pd-extended from synaptic.
I did and it is working much better now, not perfect but it is usable.

I've been trying to find where I got this info from but can't seem to find it, otherwise I'd give you the links to it.

good luck.

Hello!

I installed pd-extended on Ubuntu 8.04, following the instructions here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/InstallingUbuntu ... but what they suggest doesn't work:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

Since "feisty" is a pretty old release, the archive is no longer available... so you gotta use the "old-releases" i think:

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

I hope this helps somehow. pd-extended has all the good stuff installed, unlike pd-vanilla.

@thesergie said:

Hello!

I installed pd-extended on Ubuntu 8.04, following the instructions here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/InstallingUbuntu ... but what they suggest doesn't work:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

Since "feisty" is a pretty old release, the archive is no longer available... so you gotta use the "old-releases" i think:

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

I hope this helps somehow. pd-extended has all the good stuff installed, unlike pd-vanilla.

Hey,

He is on 8.10 though, Intrepid, not feisty.

big thanks for your answers, albesan and thesergie!
albesans way gave me the best results so far, i even found the source, it's in the "OtherSide APT" next to the download of pd-extended intrepid at http://puredata.info/downloads

but i still got the same problems. i guess pd-extended just isn't finished for intrepid so far. could you tell me, if pd-extended shows up somewhere in your applications menue? and do you sometimes have problems with gem as well? or is it just me?

sidenote: i installed pd-extended on another machine with debian lenny running, by using these repository sources: http://puredata.info/docs/faq/debian
and it works quite perfect. unfortunately the intrepid-link there gives just a 404

hey,

What are exactly your problems on your ubuntu installation?

What happens if you run pd from a terminal?

What messages do you get if you run pd in verbose mode?

If you want to have pd in your menu right click the main menu icon on the top left hand corner and select edit menus. Navigate to the section where you want to have pd and add it there.

I remember having trouble with pd on ubuntu for lack of codecs and for having some video components installed with default parameters.
I did compile some of them myself and that helped quite a lot.

Again I'm sorry to be so vague but this was a while a go and I didn't document the process.

hope this is of help