Hello, I am brand new to puredata but I am off too a rough start. I hope there is an easy/obvious solution to this but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

First of all, yes I am in edit mode. I have the hand as the cursor. I make two new object "osc~ 440" and "dac~". The inputs and outputs are showing up. The problem is when I mouse over an output, the lower left black rectangle on "osc~ 440", it does not change to a circle. I cannot drag to connect the object. I've already tried reinstalling.

Additionally, I tried opening up the Audio Test in edit mode and tried deleting a connection by clicking when the cursor changes to an X, but this does not work either.

This is Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc5.
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Gnome.

Please help!

this really sounds far to bizzare. if you go into the help browser and open any example patch, does it look like all the cables are missing? or do they seem to be connected? Can you delete a cable and then re hook it?

You're using a release candidate version, which is just meant for testing the next official release. You might want to try a stable version (0.41.4):

http://puredata.info/downloads

You should also report problems with release candidates to the pd-list.

I've tried several versions now, all with the same result. I currently have Pd version 0.41.4-extended installed. arif, when I open an example file and try to disconnect a cable, it doesn't work either. The cursor changes to an X, but clicking just selects the cable instead of deleting it.

once the cable is selected you then have to press backspace(/delete) to remove it.

When creating cables you just have wait till the cursor turns into a O then click and drag.

Maybe try running Pd vanilla and see if that works. But if that doesn't, maybe you could go into aptitude and check to see that you haven't got any broken dependencies or whatever (it's been a while since I played with GNU/Linux).

Ok, so I am am able to delete cables afterall. But as for creating them, no matter how long I wait with the cursor over the output, it never changes to an O.

I've already tried pd vanilla, same problem.

I don't know much about finding broken dependencies. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. If anyone could help me out with that I'd appreciate it.

i'm having the same in Ubuntu 9.10 with Pd 0.41.4-1 installed from the repository.
when trying to connect objects a small sign appears probably meaning 'not allowed'.

playing patches made in Windows works well.

??