Hi @porres

Thanks for this info. I would volunteer my help but I don't think I have the experience yet. I'm not actually sure where to start, although I did find an old youtube tutorial detailing the pd-lib-builder compiling process:

Thanks @alexandros

I haven't built an externals library before, but I shall give it a shot!

Any other advice gratefully received

@porres you may be able to shed some light on this? Thanks in advance!

Hello, again forum! I posted 4 months ago because I was having issues with else externals, which I was able to solve by building the latest version of PD.
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14839/else-externals-not-working-on-raspberry-pi-4b-running-pd-0-51-4

Now I am running into problems again. I have a new Raspberry Pi 5 running Debian GNU/Linux 12. I have built PD 0.55-1 and it is running successfully, but when I search for else externals library in deken is get the following:

"else": Found 0 usable packages (of 5 packages in total).
It appears that there are no matching packages for your architecture.

I looked on the github page for else and it says that "This version of ELSE needs Pd 0.55-1 or above.", which is the version I have.

I wonder if anyone can provide some advice? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. The only thing that is different from 4 months ago when I solved this problem is that I'm now using a pi 5?

Thanks!

@mod This is a nice patch, sounds good, although I see this is set up to load existing files: can you recommend a way to customise it so it accepts incoming audio as a live feed?

Thanks!

Thanks! Gonna check this out now.

OK, I ran

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove puredata

And then started all over again from the beginning, doing exactly the same thing, and this time it worked! Very strange.

All this aside, the good news is that all of the ELSE library now seems to be working! Phew, what a trip. I'm so grateful to everyone here for walking me through this.

@whale-av thanks for all your support.

I'm looking in usr/bin and both wish and wish8.6 are there already!

I wonder why it's not finding it...

sudo apt install wish confirms:

pi17@pi17:~ $ sudo apt install wish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'tk' instead of 'wish'
tk is already the newest version (8.6.11+1).
tk set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I must confess this is starting to get a bit beyond me, it seems this build is not as simple as it promised!

OK, I followed the instructions in the readme doc:
file:///Users/bencoleman/Downloads/pd-0.55-0/doc/1.manual/x6.htm

Did the full install procedure, first the linux specific steps, and then the general autotools build steps

And although I see Pd listed under sound and video applications in the drop down menu as though it is installed, it will not open. If I try and open it in the terminal with the command 'pd' or 'sudo pd' I get the following message:
sh: 1: wish: not found

Can anyone help me understand what is happening? Is there a way for me to verify that pd 0.55-0 works on Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye), which is the OS running on my new Pi 4B?

I'm a bit stumped! Thank you for any and all help.

Thanks all, I've been using Pd for some time now but haven't ever tackled a build. I will give this a try. If anyone can point me to any resources on a step by step build, I'd be very grateful!

EDIT: OK, I downloaded the source code at the link provided by David, and I see the install instructions document in there- I will start there.