Hi,

I've been an OS X user all my life, have never once used Terminal etc... Anyways I REALLY want to try out pd-l2ork because it seems to have so many awesome features. I partitioned my hard drive and installed the latest version of Linux Mint. I went to the virginia tech site and followed the instructions exactly. I downloaded the .deb file, opened it with package installer, installed the missing dependencies with sudo apt-get install -f and....nothing. No icons, no evidence that pd-l2ork has been installed anywhere. I type in "pd-l2ork" into Terminal and i get "pd-l2ork: command not found", I try searching for the program itself on the hard disk and...nothing.

I tried installing pd-vanilla through the software manager, worked like a charm. I have no idea how to troubleshoot in Linux so if anyone could give me some pointers that would be awesome!!

Thanks

@DustySounds I emailed the l2ork list serv and this was the only response I got:

The problem with 64-bit installation looks like that some dependencies required for pd-l2ork are not fulfilled, namely libtk8.5. Could you try to manually install it, and then run the program again?
# apt-get install libtk8.5
(# denotes elevated permission; same below)
Regarding pd-vanilla: I have not tried to install pd-vanilla along with pd-l2ork so I'm not aware of any potential conflicts. To uninstall pd-vanilla, go to the directory where you compiled it and run the makefile. It should be under the src folder if I recall correctly.
# make uninstall
# make clean

It never worked for me so I gave up.

@rjp9

It never worked for me so I gave up.

And which error did you get when trying to install libtk8.5?

I actually have a healthy ecosystem consisting of pd-extended, vanilla and l2Ork on my Linux Mint machine. I had to first install extended, then force install l2Ork. Vanilla was easy, since I compiled it myself.

Take care,
Gilberto

@gsagostinho Honestly I can't remember. I gave up on Linux haha. It was really hard to figure out how to get around in it, and I couldn't use the internet for help because it wouldn't recognize my laptop's wifi card.

@rjp9 that's a pity. Using Linux can be as smooth as it gets if you are lucky enough (that is, if your hardware works perfectly out of the box, and nowadays most do) but sometimes we come across some hardware that is not supported yet (wifi cards are the typical culprit). My girlfriend currently uses an external USB wifi card on her laptop, which is a bit of a pain in the neck, but still allows her to use Linux over Windows (which she also prefers). Well, let's hope Pd-l2Ork will be compiled in other OSes soon.

@DustySounds Let me know if manually installing libtk8.5 will solve your problem, and if not post the error message(s) here.

Take care,
Gilberto

@gsagostinho , I ran into the same problem on Gnome Ubuntu 14.04 and manually installing libtk8.5 did the the trick. Thank you very much.

@JohannesG Great to hear that!

So if someone comes across this post in the future and installing libtk8.5 does NOT solves the problem, please let us know.

Take care,
Gilberto

@gsagostinho one thing I want to add. I've run into some weird problems with the deb package on a 64-bit Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 installation. (both on my laptop and on my tower).

Basically, if I install the package (even if I install libtk8.5 prior to this) I do get some dependency errors and it advices me to run "apt-get install -f" just like the pd-l2ork website. If I do that on the other hand it does install loads of packages but also for some reasons uninstalls pd-l2ork, jack, and various other programs. (I guess that's why original poster couldn't find pd-l2ork after running "apt-get install -f")

I then need to run the .deb package again to get pd-l2ork installed, it still complains about dependencies but runs fine afterwards. But now everytime I run apt-get -f it tries to uninstall pd-l2ork, jack and loads of other apps.

@JohannesG Thanks for sharing this information. I remember I had a similar problem with one of my notebooks some months ago, but I can't remember exactly how it happened. Since then I have been compiling Pd-l2Ork myself and installing it over previously installed versions, so I never came across those problems again.

Take care!
Gilberto

All,

Ico from VT pointed me to another library pointed me to a library of more recent deb files for Pd-L2ork. It is at this address:

http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/data/pd/

I had problems with the posted deb file you were referring to but this one worked much better. There were a few additional libraries to install but I was ble to get it working.

Mitch

I finally got this installed after a similar battle to what other people have been describing. My OS is Lubuntu 15.04, which should be the same as Ubuntu 15.04. The missing packages were:

1. libtk8.5
2. libmpeg3-1

To install the second one, I had to add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

       deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main universe

I can wait to see what this distribution has to offer!

@LiamG welcome to the club!

Hi
I have somehow managed to install pd-l2ork on osx a few years ago. Cant remember how, but couldnt have been to difficult, otherwise i would not have succeeded.
Just as hint for research, or more wise people to jump in,

Best

-j

Hi all,
After struggling for a while with similar issues (sudo apt-get install -f removing pd-l2ork, etc) I finally got pd-l2ork working. I started again with a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install (it was force majeure actually, I found out what happens when you use sudo with no idea of what you are doing).

I executed the commands to get all the necessary dev libraries found on the pd-l2ork install page (it's a long string of library names, and took a while to download and unpack) BEFORE installing the deb package from the Terminal.
It still didn't worked so I typed sudo apt-get install -f et voilá, il a arreté!
Basically I properly followed the instructions. I hope it helps someone.

Cheers

@gomez glad to hear it worked out for you, now enjoy Pd-l2Ork!