Installing on Mac OS X
Software name : Pure Data Extended
Homepage : http://puredata.info
Software version used for this installation : Pd-Extended 0.39.3
Operating System use for this installation : Mac OS 10.4.11
Recommended Hardware : Any Mac running OS X
To begin the installation visit the download page for Pure Data ( http://puredata.info/downloads ) :
You can download either Miller Puckette's version of Pure Data, or Pure Data Extended. Miller's version of Pure Data is called "pd-vanilla" because it does not contain any external libraries or any of the features developed by the Pure Data community which are included in Pure Data Extended. We will use Pure Data Extended for this manual, so chose your installer from the "pd-extended" section of this webpage.
Since there is not a "Universal Installer" for Pure Data Extended, you will want to select the Mac OS X installer that best suits your computer. Use the one labelled "Mac OS X 10.4 i386" for the newer, Intel-processor equipped Mac computers running Mac OS 10.4. Use the "Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC" installer if you have a Powermac or PowerBook with a G4 or G5 processor running Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger", and use the "Mac OS X 10.3" installer if you are still running "Panther" or an even older version of Mac OS X.
Once you've downloaded the right installer, you'll have a .dmg (Disk Image) on your harddrive.
Double click to open and mount it, and you will have a chance to read and accept the License Agreement.
Once you click "Agree", the Disk Image will mount and automatically open. Then simply drag the Pd-extended.app to the provided shortcut to your Applications folder (or to another location of your choice.) This will copy Pd-extended to your harddrive.
After that, make sure to check the "ReadMe" file for important installation information.
As indicated, the Pd-extended.app is setup by default to load most of the included external libraries. If you want to change the libraries which are loaded at startup time, or any of the other startup settings, please notice the instructions here in the "ReadMe", and be sure to read the chapter "Configuring Pure Data" in this manual.
From here, you can open up your "Applications" folder in the Finder, and start PD by clicking the "Pd-extended.app" icon found there.
