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How do I install FCEU / ZSNES?

Hi All,

I decided to ditch windows all together and jump straight into linux but im finding the most basic tasks really difficult.

For example, im trying to install FCE Ultra and ZSNES emulators but I dont know where to begin. Everything I read talks about make install and compiling etc etc, im really confused.#

Can anyone help?

Im using ubuntu

download the zsnes_src.tar.gz or whatever its called and extract it's contents to you home folder or tmp folder or wherever
then open up your terminal and cd (change directory) to where you extracted

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cd /tmp/zsnes_src

then type

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./configure

this will configure the package for your system
when thats finished and it gives no errors, type

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make

this will build the binaries from source
then when thats finished, type

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su

this switches to the root user
and you will enter your root password when prompted
then type

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make install

to copy the binaries and whatever other files to where they are to be installed on the system
then type

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zsnes

to play

you can delete the /tmp/zsnes_src folder or leave it there if you want to uninstall with

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make uninstall

hope that makes sense

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried doing what you suggested with both FCE Ultra and ZSNES, het the following...

FCE Ultra

Quote:

iain@aragorn:~/fceu$ ./configure --with-opengl
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for asprintf... yes
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... no
configure: error: *** zlib not found!
iain@aragorn:~/fceu$

Try the same with ZSNES and get the following..

Quote:

iain@aragorn:~/zsnes142src.tar.gz_FILES/zsnes_1_42/src$ ./configure --with-opengl
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for nasm... no
configure: error: You need NASM installed to compile ZSNES

I dont have any idea what this means, please help.

Managed to install ZSNES, found it under synaptic package manager :) Still having the same issue with FCE Ultra though :confused:

i got it up and running tho when trying that make install it did nothing but say something bout not able to stop...no commands were run.

ah well

I'd recommend you both to stick with packages for your distribution. Both Zsnes and FCE Ultra are hard to compile. In fact, it seems to compile (or not) randomly. I could install both through synaptic in Ubuntu dapper. Try:

apt-get install fceu

you may need to add more repositories to your apt-get list, but since I'm not familiar with vanilla debian, I will leave that task for you ^_^.