Hello, I just got my first Raspberry Pi and I really would love to run Pd on it! I don't care if it's Pd-extended or Pd-vanilla, I just want to run some version of it.

I installed Raspbian using NOOBS. I tried to install Pd-extended using the instructions at this link: https://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended-0-43-3-on-raspberry-pi-raspbian-wheezy-armhf but I ran into a problem when entering the command:

$ sudo dpkg -i Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121004.deb 

Here's a picture of the errors I received:

Honestly, I don't know what dependencies are or how to get the right ones. I also tried to install Pd 0.48 using the tutorial written by user emviveros on the forum post at this link: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11626/pd-48-on-raspberry-pi-3 but, like user nicnut, when I tried to run autogen by typing "./autogen.sh" I also received an error that said " ./autogen.sh: 21: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found".

If anyone knows of a surefire way to get ANY version of Pure Data running on Raspbian installed via NOOBS, I would really appreciate the help!

Thanks,

Jeff

@jeffgrips You might have some luck here........ especially if you are correct about your RPI specs.......
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pure-data/files/pd-extended/0.43.4/
I remember dumping pd-extended_0.43.4~extended1-1~raspbian_wheezy_armhf.deb on the RPI desktop....... renaming it........... pd-extended_0.43.4~extended1-1,deb........ and then........? I can't remember but it must have been a standard way to install a deb package and dependancies.
David.

@whale-av Hi David, thanks for the reply. I'm still confused, though. The link you posted brought me to a download of "Pd-extended_0.43.4-source.tar.bz2" and I'm not sure how to install this file. I tried installing pd-extended_0.43.4~extended1-1.deb as you suggested, but I encountered similar errors about not having the right packages installed. I don't know what these packages are or where to find them. If you know how to install these packages, or another alternative, I would greatly appreciate the help.

You might try the raspbian deb for Purr Data:

https://github.com/jonwwilkes/purr-data/releases

You'll have fewer dependencies because it doesn't ship Gem.

There should be a package called gdebi. If you install that you can right-click on the deb and install it. Then gdebi should install all the required dependencies (if it can).

@jeffgrips As @jancsika says or the green tick answer here...........https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt
Whichever you try you should probably do a clean up of the package manager and the system before you start....... Google will tell you how to do that.......
David.

doesn't sudo apt-get install puredata work?
Also, if you download the latest Pd version, it includes an INSTALL.txt file which explains the whole procedure to compile from source. I have compiled Pd on a Pi many times without a problem.