There is currently no package for Pure Data in the Chakra linux distribution, so I decided to build it myself. This turned out to be a lengthy process; here's what I did to get version 0.42.5 running:
I downloaded the "Source tarball for all platforms" from puredata.org.
When you extract the tarball you get a directory called Pd-0.42.5-extended.
I had to make a few changes in there for the build to succeed:
#include <linux/videodev.h>
to #include <linux/videodev2.h>
-export-dynamic
in Makefile, opengl/Makefile and scaf/Makefile, and edit out extra hyphens in front of it (gcc will complain over --export-dynamic
and interrupt the build)in externals/Makefile, remove pidip
from where it says
else
# GNU/Linux, BSD, IRIX, etc.
LIB_TARGETS += hid pdp pidip gem2pdp iem16 pdp_opengl postlude
This will disable the pidip extension, which requires libquicktime (for which there is currently no Chakra package either, and which I haven't bothered to install manually...)
go to packages/linux_make and do make install
. Unlike the usual meaning of that command, this will build the package, not install it.
After building (~ half an hour on my machine), type make package
to prepare an installation tarball
cd into build and do:
tar -xjf Pd-0.42.5-extended.tar.bz2
cd Pd-0.42.5-extended
Installation now fails over some missing help files. Providing empty files allows the install script to continue:
touch lib/pd-extended/extra/iemlib/-help.pd lib/pd-extended/extra/iemlib/parent-help.pd
Finally install the package: sudo make install
I can now run pdextended
and create fun stuff like in the picture above.