Installing the latest PureData on a Raspberry Pi

Oct 7, 2018

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in Projects, RaspberryPi, Research, Sonic Interactions

After a fair bit of deliberation I was able to install Pure Data 0.49 on the Pi running Raspbian Stretch. I’ll walk through this step by step in case you’re not familiar with command line in Linux.

The default way to install PureData (Pd) is:

sudo apt-get install puredata

The only problem with this method of installing Pd is that you’ll get 0.47.

STEP1. Open Terminal

STEP2. Creating folder to organize compilation (optional):

mkdir src

STEP3. Enter in src folder / install dependencies / download pd source code / unpack downloaded file:

cd src
sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libtool gettext git libasound2-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev tcl tk
wget http://msp.ucsd.edu/Software/pd-0.49-0.src.tar.gz
tar -xzf pd-0.49-0.src.tar.gz

STEP4. Compiling Pd:

cd pd-0.49-0
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-jack --enable-fftw
make

STEP5. Confirming if compilation are ok:

cd bin
./pd

STEP6. If it run, you can install Pd in your raspbian:

cd ..
sudo make install

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Comments

4 responses to “Installing the latest PureData on a Raspberry Pi”

tom

July 20, 2019

Thanks for posting this. I ran everything in this post, and, at the end, it said “schedule 8 failed”. the Pd window opened and said that it was running at schedule 6 instead. Is this a problem?
Haig

September 4, 2019

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. I’m not sure what the problem is, I’ve never had that happen to me. What version of Raspbian are you using?
Lks

March 15, 2023

Thank you for this.
I also runned through all this till the command “./pd”.
This just gave me the response “sh: 1: wish: not found” to which i can’t find any usefull answer in the web.
Could you helb me with this?
kieran

May 26, 2023

If anyone runs into the schedule 8 issue, this will fix it:
https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html