latest PureData-extended conflicts with vanilla PureData in ubuntustudio-audio
altern
altern2 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 10:41:50 GMT 2008
hollunder at gmx.at(e)k dio:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:56:16 +0100
> altern <altern2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all
>>
>> I want to install PureData 0.40.3-extended on Ubuntu Studio 8.04.
>> Previously i had PureData 0.39 and this was not a problem because
>> 0.39 installed to /usr/local but 0.40 goes to /usr/lib So Studio
>> doesnt like it because it already has vanilla PureData installed,
>> this is included in ubuntustudio-audio package so uninstalling PD
>> wants to uninstall the whole audio package.
>>
>> I want PD extended because it has plenty of externals and
>> documentation included. There are two options to install PD-extended
>> one is via apt-get, this is the docs about it
>> http://puredata.info/docs/faq/debian
>>
>> another is to download the package and install it with dpkg i am
>> wondering if maybe i could force it to go to /usr/local to avoid this
>> error. I am always afraid of making a mess when this kind of
>> conflicts happens so if anyone could suggest some options it would be
>> apreciated
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> enrike
>>
>
> Just uninstall the version from ubuntustudio. it will remove the
> ubuntustudio-audio package, yes, but this is just a meta-package.
ok, so this does not uninstall the whole thing then. i was afraid that
all would be gone. thanks and sorry for answering such a basic question...
enrike
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