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Building for GNU/Linux using Debian or Ubuntu
First you will need to make sure that you have all of the standard development tools installed. To do that, run this command in your Terminal:
sudo apt-get build-dep puredata gem pdp
Extra Required Packages
All of these packages are used in the compilation of Pd-extended on Debian Sarge/stable. All of them come from the standard Debian repositories except those marked. The easiest way to install all of these is to copy and paste the list of packages on a line starting with apt-get install.
This is all that is needed to compile Pd-extended:
sudo apt-get install fakeroot ttf-dejavu libfftw3-dev libspeex-dev libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libsndfile1-dev libsamplerate0-dev libgavl-dev libmad0-dev dssi-dev liblo-dev libhid-dev flite1-dev libtk-img tcllib swig tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev liblua5.1-0-dev
LAME is a free library that provides mp3 support. It was not in Debian until Debian/wheezy or Ubuntu until Ubuntu/intrepid. You can install it by doing
sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev
If that fails, then you need to add an external repository. The mp3 format is patented ( No Software Patents!) in the U.S.A., Germany, and maybe other countries, so Debian could not include LAME. Some of the patents recently expired. You can get LAME packages from the debian-multimedia .org repository. If you live in a country where these patents apply, you need to make sure you have a license for the patented software, or only use this software for research purposes. You can add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list using a text editor or using synaptics.
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
For Ubuntu, you can get it by enabling multiverse. You can add it manually in your /etc/apt/sources.list, uncomment the lines that have dapper universe and add multiverse to the end:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
Now run apt-get update and then install these packages:
liblame0 liblame-dev Or for Ubuntu/intrepid and Debian/squeeze, use these: libmp3lame0 libmp3lame-dev
Note that it's not easy to build pd without mp3 support, so installing these packages is recommended even if you don't plan on using it.
Gridflow
For building gridflow, you will need :
ruby1.9-dev ruby1.9 libx11-dev libpng12-dev libmpeg3-dev libquicktime-dev libjpeg62-dev xlibs-dev
You should use the version from the gridflow.ca CVS repository. Download it in a new directory as it is not self-contained. Type ./configure; make;. Then, you will need to manually copy the directory to anywhere you want it to be installed. Let say /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/gridflow.
Building Pd and/or Pd-extended
Before you start building, you will of course need to get the source code. There are multiple ways of getting it, check out GettingPdSource for the options. Then move on to BuildingPd or BuildingPdExtended, depending on what you want to build.
Autobuilders
The Debian autobuilders are servers which automatically build all of the Debian packages. The Pd sources must be properly setup in order for this to work.
