Thanks, could you recommend a distro/version? 16.04.4 LTS from here https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

18.3 Sylvia. Just did a fresh install of Xubuntu. Purr Data won't install correctly, sigh.

Hi
following some kind and enlightened advice here recently, I have decided to try a Linux distro other than Fedora. I have 3 .iso's on my hard drive. My machine is an ASUS N55s Intel i5, with 500gb HD, 6gb RAM and 2gb dedicated GPU memory. It's no slouch, but it's old. I'm looking for a lightweight desktop environment that will let me tweak layouts, themes, shortcuts etc, and an OS that will provide painless and n00b-friendly package installation, running PD, Supercollider, Processing, Arduino, Audacity and Ardour mainly.. I've chosen Mint Cinnamon, Xfce and Ubuntu Studio, and I'd appreciate your insights and experiences. I do recall trying out Ubuntu Studio a few years ago. My machine ground to a halt, was very sluggish and felt 'bloated', without allowing much leeway to tinker and tweak. With the little research I've done, I'm leaning towards Xfce. I'll be spending tmoro afternoon doing the install.

Looking forward to your advice
Brendan

Hey @jancsika, many thanks for the advice. I chose Fedora, because it was my first exposure to Linux (Fedora 16 I think), based on a system at the Uni where I taught Max/PD/Supercollider, using PlanetCCRMA real time kernel. So, yes, I should really consider Mint or Ubuntu. Good advice mate l)

Hallo

I felt sure that I had asked this question before, but having reviewed ALL my previous posts - apparently not:

I am passing sensor data into PD (PurrData) via the [comport] external. If the numbers are sent as 'raw' bytes (Serial.write), I can parse them easily enough. I would like to try using Serial.print, which will allow me to send numbers >255. Can some kind soul remind me how to convert ascii back into the sensor integers. In Max, I would do this: [itoa] -> [fromsymbol], But it seems a little more involved in PD. I've been trying [spell], [makefile] etc without success.
Thanks

Thanks again @Alexandros; I took the easy way out and just installed the pd-extended repository from PlanetCCRMA - it self-installs. A persistent annoying error in the print window says "Gem-can't find library/pdp-can't find library". I'm not too concerned, as I use pd etc fro audio only.

Thanks
Brendan

Ok, so I installed automake and libtool sepearately; both the autogen.sh and configure.ac files unloaded fine when I ran them, but the final command 'make' generated a whole lotta text ending with the following:

../libtool: line 1737: g++: command not found
Makefile:699: recipe for target 'pd' failed
make[2]: *** [pd] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/brendan/Documents/pd-0.46-7/src'
Makefile:925: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/brendan/Documents/pd-0.46-7'
Makefile:825: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Maybe I need to take this to a Fedora forum ? ?

Brendan

Thanks for the input - I should have mentioned that I rely on RPM to handle my repositories/installs. But the GNOME Terminal is usually quite forgiving, with hints/tips etc; I'll try @Alexandros' advice.

Hey Monetus,LOL, and thanks for the welcome and advice. I successfully installed pd-extended a few weeks back (can't recall how I got it to run though - I think RPM took care of it (??) - **and guess what synth I built first?? **Chaos FM ; )

Brendan

Hallo gentle people
I am a relative newcomer to Linux, but I have already successfully installed applications such as Processing and Arduino that don't use an 'auto installer', using the Terminal Window. Despite following the instructions in INSTALL.txt I cannot get pd (0.46-7) installed. I extract the src.tar.gz, then navigate to that directory; and then I type:
sudo ./configure,ac and am prompted with:
sudo: ./configure: No such file or directory
If I try to run ./autogen.sh, I get:
./autogen.sh: line 22: autoreconf: command not found

Elsewhere on the 'net, including here, this is as best or as far as the advice goes.

Please help, any Linux peeps out there

Brendan