Roman helped a lot with the info for these instructions.
Roman says:
> if you still have troubles with compiling pd, you could join me (rdz) on
> #dataflow in the irc-chat. the channel #dataflow is on the server
> freenode.net. it might be easier to help you in realtime

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headers (pre-requisite for pd)
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install tcl.h (see seperate file for how to do this).


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pd
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get shellscript 'checkout-developer-layout.sh' from sourceforge 
or from 
http://jo.koan.net/pd/install/source

run that script
u will be told there is error with pasword but ignore that
mayb rename the folder install_pd or something like that
change to pd folder within that
read INSTALL.txt
it suggests 
	./config 
	which will not work so
u gotta type
	autoconf
and then
	./configure --enable-jack
we did the above as user (not root)

normally (for subsequent permissions reasons)
you do first as user
	make
which should take about a minute

and then as root

	make install
which should take about a couple of minutes

Now pd is installed (try it)
But not netpd yet

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netpd
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We still need to install zexy, 
and find the libraries iemmatrix, iemlib, iemabs 
and copy them into the right folder

If we have a binary obect already compiled for our machine
(or a machine like ours)
(that object will be called zexy.pd_linux)
then we can just put zexy.pd_linux file into /usr/local/lib/pd/extra

Otherwise we have to compile it the same we did for pd
So we do the following...

as root
	autoconf
	./configure
then as user
	make
then as root
	make install
which will create
	/usr/local/lib/pd/extra/zexy.pd_linnux
which means zexy is installed

put maxlib file into /usr/local/lib/pd/extra

For netpd there is nothing to "install' as such
Just extract it into somewhere convenient coz that is where
you will start netpd each time

You must create .pdrc

go to netpd.org and then the download tab to get netpd
go to netpd.org and then the howto tab then
get zexy (follow instructiosn in README.txt)
get maxlib (maxlib-help, maxlib.dll, maxlib.pd_linux)