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

[kjcole]

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/...

[capital-G]

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?

[codecollider]

I compiled version 3.14.1 on Ubuntu and also found this highly confusing. I installed 3.14.1 locally and the sc3 plugins into root, which didn´t work as the local supercollider is not looking in root for plugins.

This is what I got in 3.14.1:

Platform.userExtensionDir
 ->  /home/fox/.local/share/supercollider_latest/SuperCollider/Extensions

and

Platform.systemExtensionDir
/home/fox/usr/local/supercollider_latest/share/SuperCollider/Extensions

I ended up copying the binaries of the extracted sc3 plugins zip folder the following way:

The SC3plugins folder I copied to /home/fox/.local/share/supercollider_latest/SuperCollider/Extensions
The plugins folder in sc3-plugins-3.13.0-Linux-x64/lib/SuperCollider/plugins I renamed to plugins_s3c and copied this to /home/fox/usr/local/supercollider_latest/lib/SuperCollider/plugins . So the plugins coming with SuperCollider then are in /home/fox/usr/local/supercollider_latest/lib/SuperCollider/plugins and the SC3 plugins are in /home/fox/usr/local/supercollider_latest/lib/SuperCollider/plugins/plugins_SC3. This seems to work, but I wonder if it is the correct way. Maybe one can better describe where the sc3-plugins-3.13.0-Linux-x64/lib/SuperCollider/plugins should go.

I opened a topic here also: https://scsynth.org/t/problems-with-superclean-and-sc3-plugins-linux-ubuntu/12898/10

I was also not aware that when building the SC3 plugins one should use the same installation prefix that was used for SuperCollider.