This page isn't anymore actual, as I proceeded with pd-extended instead of pd standard. I'll try to update it later, or remove it in case it's not possible.

Getting PD standard

Get all dependencies installed: sudo apt-get build-dep puredata

Get everything from CVS with this script, by running it where you want to put the Pd code.

For example, at ~ I run: sh checkout-developer-layout.sh

Install the necessary packages to build PD and the externals

This information is derived from the Building for GNU/Linux using Debian page.

To install packages do a sudo apt-get install for the following packages:

tcl8.4 tcl8.4-dev tk8.4 tk8.4-dev
libjack0.80.0-0 libjack0.80.0-dev libasound2 libasound2-dev
libogg0 libogg-dev libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libvorbis-dev libspeex1 libspeex-dev
couldn't be found: libflac6
libflac-dev libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev fftw3 fftw3-dev
liblame0 liblame-dev
magemagick libmagick++6c2[!!!actualised] libmagick++6-dev liblcms1 liblcms1-dev libjasper-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libpng3 libpng3-dev libtiff4 libtiff4-dev libtheora0 libtheora-dev libmpeg-dev libmpeg1 libmpeg2-4 libmpeg3-1 libmpeg3-dev libquicktime1 libquicktime-dev ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavc1394-0 libavc1394-dev libdv4 libdv4-dev libxv-dev libxv1 libdts-dev ftgl-dev libimlib2 libimlib2-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev graphviz libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libice6 libice-dev libsm6 libsm-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxext6 libxext-dev libxt6 libxt-dev libx11-6 libx11-dev
couldn't be found: libdps1 libdps-dev
libavifile-0.7-dev
ruby1.9-dev ruby1.9 libx11-dev libpng12-dev libmpeg3-dev libquicktime-dev libjpeg62-dev xlibs-dev
build gridflow didn't work:
/pure-data/externals/gridflow/./configure
/usr/bin/env: ruby: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Getting anything else from CVS

See the references here.

Building PD

cd ~/pure-data/pd/src
sudo ./configure
[I don't know anymore if I changed the makefile according to the thread here. In case I did, I followed the suggestion given later, only with -I/usr/include/tcl8.4, the version from my computer]
sudo make depend
sudo make install

Build externals

Again from Building for GNU/Linux using Debian, Section Building

cd pure-data/packages/
make patch_pd
cd pure-data/packages/linux_make
sudo make install

and this last point isn't working yet. to know more check out the thread "compile pd on ubuntu 5.10" on the mailing list.

Uninstall Pd

On ../pd/src:
sudo make uninstall
sudo make clean