ZSNES on Fedora 5

[Reiji]

So I am trying to get SNES on my Fedora Via ZSNES. But I cannot get it to install. I have tried yum but it says that it cannot find the package. I have done a lot of searching on the web and 90% of sites just say use apt-get or yum. So I am wondering if there is some secret command or repository that I need to put on my yum before I can install it. Or if there is a guide to installing it through the source, as annoying as that is.

[leigh123linux]

you will have to compile from source , heres a link to homepage and required package.

http://www.zsnes.com/

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/z...s142src.tar.gz

[sideways]

or go here

http://rpm.pbone.net/

search for zsnes (use advance search to restrict the distros if you like)

you'll find an rpm for zsnes-1.42.1 (the most recent fedora one is for FC4 but works fine in FC5 and FC6)

works fine in FC6 for me

(I use opengl window for the video setting to get 100% frame rate with my ati radeon 9600

[Reiji]

Originally Posted by sideways

or go here

http://rpm.pbone.net/

search for zsnes (use advance search to restrict the distros if you like)

you'll find an rpm for zsnes-1.42.1 (the most recent fedora one is for FC4 but works fine in FC5 and FC6)

works fine in FC6 for me

(I use opengl window for the video setting to get 100% frame rate with my ati radeon 9600

Well thanks that got it on my computer. But there is something wrong with the code apparently an invalid pointer somewhere. I don't know, all I know is that it is not working.

But thanks for the site Iw ill look here from now on.

[sideways]

so there were no errors during the install?

what error do you get when you launch zsnes, does the gui even appear?

rpm.pbone.net is useful for oneoff quick searches but always try yum and the main repositories first, it can save major headaches with dependency issues.

you'll see at the bottom of the download page for the zsnes rpm a list of required libraries etc (dependencies) it is quite long. the rpm installer should warn about dependencies but yum is just easier to use.


you could try compiling the source, often it just requires 3 commands in the source directory

./configure
make
make install

EDIT the link to the source rpm is on the rhs (at the top) of the download page

EDIT2

unfortunately I can't get that source package to compile on my FC6 installation

I did an rpm -Uhv zsnes-1.42-1.rhfc4.nr.src.rpm

you get a spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and a tar.gz file in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

so I tried to build an rpm:

rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/zsnes.spec

saild I need 'nasm' so:

yum install nasm (it's in the core repository)

then tried the rpm build again, and failed with errors

The tried to build the source directly


cd /tmp

tar xvf /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/zsnes142src.tar.gz

cd zsnes_1_42/src

./configure

at this point it onimously says 'now type make and pray'

and unfortunately the build fails during make.


ah well, maybe you'll have more luck, I haven't got time to pursue this further

good luck!

[sideways]

after reading another thread I was reminded of this alternative to zsnes

http://dries.studentenweb.org/rpm/pa...es9x/info.html

[Coolerthanyou]

snes9x is not really that good on linux. It would be nice if someone made a patch and set up better video that doesn't need to run as root.

For zsnes try compiling the source from http://www.ipherswipsite.com/

[Reiji]

Originally Posted by Coolerthanyou

snes9x is not really that good on linux. It would be nice if someone made a patch and set up better video that doesn't need to run as root.

For zsnes try compiling the source from http://www.ipherswipsite.com/

So I tried to compile it but when I do ./configure nothing happens there is an error saying that it is not a directory or something along those lines.

[Coolerthanyou]

./autogen.sh not ./configure