Installing Mupen64 in Linpus Lite
 

Right, Okay!

I have an Acer aspire one running an Linpus linux lite and I have downloaded Mupen64 5.0 (The N64 emulator) for Linux and I can't get it to install for some reason... A.K.A., I'm thick...

So any help would be much appreciated and remember to dumb it down to the max for me!

-psychobeith

We'll need some more details if we're going to be able to help. When you say it can't install for some reason... what are you doing to install it (i.e. ./configure, make, rpm, dpkg, etc. )? and are you receiving any errors when you run whatever install command you're using?

Post what you're doing to install this, and what (if any) errors you're receiving.

Alright. I downloaded it, unzipped it and put it in a Mupen folder in the home directory. Inside were no executable files except one called "Mupen64" (It isn't .exe or .rpm, it just says executable) But whenever I try to open it nothing happens.

What do I do?!?

-psychobeith

Oh, sorry, the penny finally dropped, lol.

At first I was just double clicking the "mupen64" executable file but that didn't work so I tried to use the terminal but I don't know how...

I'm so confused :scratch:

-psychobeith

Psycho, I'm not familiar with linpus lite so I'm downloading it now.

I'll write you an install procedure once I get it installed and working.

Man it's a slow day at work... hehe though I'm always up for playing with new distros...

You are truly a saint! Thank you!!! I've been dying without my N64 games!

-psychobeith

Hey Psycho,

Here's what I've been able to discover. The file I downloaded from Mupen 64 ( http://mupen64.emulation64.com/files...64-0.5.tar.bz2 ) is a compressed archive file. I downloaded it to my desktop and the rest of the commands I had to run in terminal.
Here's where it might get tricky. First you have to extract the archive. First Open terminal ( go to xfce menu -> system -> click terminal ). Once terminal is open you have to do the following...

[linpus@LINPUS ~]$ cd Desktop
[linpus@LINPUS Desktop]$ tar xjvf mupen64-0.5.tar.bz2

Now, the files have been extracted but the executable file " mupen64 " won't run just by double clicking it. So you have to run this through terminal as well.

[linpus@LINPUS Desktop]$ cd mupen64-0.5
[linpus@LINPUS mupen64-0.5]$ ./mupen64

Mupen 64 launches fine. However since this is running on a VM for me I was actually able to load a ROM because the virtual graphics card is not supported =P. If you run into crashing issues it might be because your graphics card is unsupported. Mupen recommends NVidia or ATI chipsets.

Hope that helps.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Thank you so much! I can play games again! I OWE YOU ONE! THANKS!

-psychobeith

stuck
 

hi

i got as far as [linpus@LINPUS mupen64-0.5]$ ./mupen64 but when i input this it says Couldn't read config file '/mnt/home/Desktop/mupen64-0.5/.//mupen64.conf': No such file or directory then the MUpen 64 v0.5 box loads up but i cant find any ROMs for it. did u have the same problem?

I don't know, but I recommend mupen64plus, it's a whole lot more efficient (especially on 64-bit with dynamic recompiler) and less buggy:
http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/

thanks
 

thanks :D

1 more question, where do u get ur roms from?

(sigh) ... that's one question you should not ask. I can't tell you where I get roms, but I can tell you that I just use google to get what I want.

point very well taken