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

@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!