I will try that... I was reading the install doc and I seemed to think that owuldn't work for some reason... but at least it won't hose my whole install!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
David Watkins</b> <<a href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I have all my emulators working except mame. I have tried apt-get install<br>> xmame-x and apt-get xmame-sdl and all that does is completely hose my entire<br>> install to the poitn where I have to format and start all over again... when
<br>> doing xfonts-util something messes up and when it gets the required package<br>> xfonts-encoding it whines that it's trying to overwrite a file that is<br>> specified in xfonts-base. At this point my entire x server fails to load
<br>> anymore. I'm now scared to death of apt-get (I'm really used to gentoo, but<br>> I'm trying to get a feel for other distros so I'm using knoppmyth with<br>> debian). Is there any other way to get x-mame? It seems like of all the
<br>> things, this and the lirc scripts are the hardest part of this setup! I have<br>> googled, I have searched the forums, I have tried a lot of different things<br>> and now I'm just looking for some new input. I'm running
0.19.<br><br>Well the obvious alternative is to compile it from source.<br><br>I'm running FC3 on a mostly 'rpm' install but I never found xmame in<br>the repos I use ( you must have a more exotic set).<br><br>Compiling was fairly straightforward though.
<br><br>I downloaded xmame-0.105.tar.bz2 from <a href="http://x.mame.net">x.mame.net</a><br><br>unzipped it $ bunzip2 <filename><br><br>un-archived it $ tar -xvf <filename><br><br>
now change into the directory it has created and edit the Makefile (I<br>think all I had to do was enable the joystick type).<br><br>run make $ make<br><br>now su to root and install # make install
<br><br><br>It all worked for me fairly easily but of course your machine may be<br>in a different state so there may be some surprises for you.<br><br>I'd recommend reading the README file as well first.<br><br>HTH<br>_______________________________________________
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