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sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:41 pm

How the hell do you install ZSNES on linux. I don't use the command line. I use Mandriva. I know nothing of linux commands. Is there a way to install it like you do on windows?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:45 pm

Time to learn the command line. You will have to compile it like every user unless you can find a site that has it precompiled binaries for you. You are far better off compiling it for yourself.

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:50 pm

What would be a good and user friendly help tutorial on learning it?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:57 pm

I dunno, it's not as hard as you imagine... a quick google wouldn't hurt if you need to. In most cases though, most install instructions are explicit in telling you what to type... as least the ZSNES install instructions are fairly explicit.

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:01 pm

Are all Linux programs installed this way? I mean isn't there anything automated like in Windows?

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:04 pm

sargonious wrote:Are all Linux programs installed this way? I mean isn't there anything automated like in Windows?

There are package managers. At least Ubuntu does have those. All things considered though, knowing the Linux command-line is pretty much mandatory.

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:07 pm

I ordered ubuntu because the iso wasn't burning properly. I used Nero but... back to Linux. I'm currently using Mandriva. It is the only one so far to complete the installation. FREEBSD and PCBSD didn't work on my system.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:09 pm

There are threads, and there are threads. This is one of those threads.

As for Mandriva, I dont recall much of a package system for it. I think it borrows from Red Hat/Fedora and uses RPM files. Even still had to compile most programs from source.

Post by **badinsults** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:57 pm

If Mandriva is based on Red Hat, shouldn't it use something like Yum (the Red Hat port of apt)?

Also, if you are going to learn Linux, you should know right now that you are going to have to use the command line. There are plenty of resources out there, so just google away.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:58 am

Agozer wrote:
sargonious wrote:Are all Linux programs installed this way? I mean isn't there anything automated like in Windows?
There are package managers. At least Ubuntu does have those.

Yep.

Anything *buntu has a package manager. (Synaptic for ubuntu and adept for kubuntu, and you can also use apt)

Other distros with a package manager:

Debian (apt)
PCLinuxOS (Synaptic)
Free/LinSpire (CNR and apt)
Gentoo (emerge)
RedHat/Fedora
Slackware (not by default, but you can install emerde and use emerge as if you were in Gentoo)

and to compile ZSNES...

cd to the src directory
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install (sudo isn't needed if you're already root, but minimal dependence on root is good.)

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:02 am

That's a mess too right now. haha I miss Windows. Lousy Microsoft bastards. Why is it so goddamn expensive? I hope Linux gets easier. For now I'll do some googling.

spoon0042 · Post by **spoon0042** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:35 pm

sargonious wrote:That's a mess too right now. haha I miss Windows. Lousy Microsoft bastards. Why is it so goddamn expensive? I hope Linux gets easier. For now I'll do some googling.

what?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:42 pm

spoon0042 wrote:
sargonious wrote:That's a mess too right now. haha I miss Windows. Lousy Microsoft bastards. Why is it so goddamn expensive? I hope Linux gets easier. For now I'll do some googling.
what?

translation wrote:I'm stuck in Linux because I felt guilty pirating Windows for some strange reason, even though I'm also pirating ROMs. I jumped into Linux but I have no damned clue so I have to learn lots of stuff, unlike Windows

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:24 pm

Anyways... I also have a small slice of my hard drive partitioned to FreeDOS 1.0 which is running for other emulators such as Genecyst, Nesticle, both versions x.xx which are perfect, Callus 0.42 running smoothly... It's only ZSNES that's not functioning properly under FreeDOS. I have CWSDPMI running but it loads ZSNES yet once you load a ROM it freezes the whole system and I have to reboot. They worked fine under Windows.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:33 pm

My current guess is that you may not be allocating enough memory for ZSNES. You need at approximately 32MB to load virtually any ROM in the DOS port. On the other hand, my other guess is that you're using 1.42 and there are some MMX related bugs... you hadn't disabled the MMX support option.

sargonious · Post by **sargonious** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:51 pm

I haven't tried disabling MMX support. That might do it. I'm running the latest version. I just downloaded it about two days ago after downloading the FreeDOS distrib. I remember how to use DOS (from expert back in the day to a normy nowadays), Linux I'm still learning.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:16 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:
translation wrote:I'm stuck in Linux because I felt guilty pirating Windows for some strange reason, even though I'm also pirating ROMs. I jumped into Linux but I have no damned clue so I have to learn lots of stuff, unlike Windows

sargonious, you may want to try the DOS WIPs, if disabling MMX support doesn't help / you don't want to disable MMX support.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:08 pm

ok, i got linux for once

is there any pre requisits for zsnes? as in any packages i must install first in order to install linux?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:09 pm

franpa, do yourself a favor and go read the SVN thread.

lumpen · Post by **lumpen** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:54 am

sargonious

I have Mandriva Linux on this computer.

Add the PLF repository to the Mandriva package manager. It's an absolute neccesity for using Linux. PLF also has Mplayer and all the semi legal codecs for playing DVDs, WMV, AVI etc.
Log in a terminal as root and enter....

urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Lin ... ree/2006.0 with hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Lin ... ree/2006.0 with hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia free ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mand ... 007.0/i586

urpmi.update

Start the mandriva add/remove software program do a search for zsnes.
Select it and click install.

I wish they would include these repository settings as default in Mandriva. Everyone who uses linux needs a codec or emulator sometime.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:25 am

i forgot to say i am using ubuntu... where is this SVN thread you speak of deathlike2?

Post by **Nach** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:35 am

franpa wrote:i forgot to say i am using ubuntu... where is this SVN thread you speak of deathlike2?

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7371

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:04 am

thanks... i couldn't find it

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:20 am

It happens to be a sticky in this forum though.... maybe I need to gouge my eyes out just to make sure.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:39 am

That SVN thread's title wrote:HOWTO: Install ZSNES from SVN

How could you NOT miss that

ZSNES board

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I don't know if you read my FreeDOS post...

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Re: I don't know if you read my FreeDOS post...

You're an antogonist...

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Re: I don't know if you read my FreeDOS post...

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