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Is the path in the installation instructions correct? Seems recursive/redundant? #390

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kjcole opened this issue Dec 30, 2024 · 1 comment

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kjcole commented Dec 30, 2024

The README says to download the .zip file and then evaluate Platform.systemExtensionDir and place the contents of the unzipped file there.

On my system, that's ~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions, but the contents of the zip file itself appears to have a bit of redundancy in directory names. To whit:

$ unzip sc3-plugins-3.13.0-Linux-x64.zip
...
$ find . -maxdepth 4 -type d
.
./share
./share/SuperCollider
./share/SuperCollider/Extensions
./share/SuperCollider/Extensions/SC3plugins
./lib
./lib/SuperCollider
./lib/SuperCollider/plugins

Following the directions as written means I will end up with a directory:

~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/SC3plugins

It seems saner to move the unzipped /lib/SuperCollider to ~/.local/lib/ and the unzipped /share/SuperCollider/Extensions/SC3plugins to ~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/...

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Your proposed way seems indeed the right one for your setup, but I don't know if we can make assumptions about the folder structures of SuperCollider on Linux? (e.g. is the folder structure of a local build and one from the package manager identical regarding /lib//share? Does rpm/apt-get/... all share the same folder structure?)

The best way would probably be to use the appropriate folders obtained via https://docs.supercollider.online/Classes/Platform.html#Directories%20and%20filesystem%20stuff and add information about which folder belongs where.

Maybe someone with Linux can chime in here?

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