Installing/Building Pure Data on the Raspberry pi 3 download pd from: http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html (this is information found in the README.txt and INSTALL.txt files in the Pd folder. you can check those files for more information.) Start by opening a commandline shell: and entering the following: sudo apt-get install build-essentials automake autoconf libtool gettext sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev then navigate to the Pd source directory: cd path/to/pd ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install Additionally I did have to install tcl/tk using: sudo apt-get install tk you can then open pd from the command line by entering: pd -------------- installing externals: some are available via deken in the help menu under Find Externals but i found that some of those did not work on the pi 3 and some where unavailable. in those cases: apt-cache search "^pd-" sudo apt-get install pd-libraryname https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9741/pure-data-on-raspian-weezy-jessie/5