Working ZSNES netplay builds for Ubuntu

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magneticanomaly
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Working ZSNES netplay builds for Ubuntu

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Hey everyone,

If you are searching for a working build of ZSNES for Ubuntu that will work with netplay, you can find old debs in the Ubuntu archives:

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/p ... e/z/zsnes/

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 x86-64, and I have so far had no problems with netplay using the zsnes_1.420-2ubuntu1_i386.deb package. I haven't tested save state loading, yet, so I can't say if that works right now. At any rate, if you've been looking for binaries and don't want to mess with compiling the old releases, you may want to give these packages a try.

Edit: To install the i386 package on x86-64 Ubuntu, make sure you have the ia32 libs installed (should be standard on x86-64 releases now) and do the following:

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sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i zsnes_1.420-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
Since it's an old package, you may get warnings about the dependency version mismatches, but as far as I know, this hasn't affected zsnes's functionality or performance.
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Re: Working ZSNES netplay builds for Ubuntu

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This is what I got, any suggestions?
l1xx3r@Mini:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i zsnes_1.420-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
(Reading database ... 143348 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace zsnes:i386 1.420-2ubuntu1 (using zsnes_1.420-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement zsnes:i386 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zsnes:i386:
zsnes:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.4-1).
zsnes:i386 depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-11ubuntu1).
zsnes:i386 depends on libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel).
zsnes:i386 depends on libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1).
zsnes:i386 depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-11ubuntu1).
zsnes:i386 depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1).
dpkg: error processing zsnes:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
zsnes:i386
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Re: Working ZSNES netplay builds for Ubuntu

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Like the first post says, you are missing packages that zsnes depends on.

In all likelihood, it will mean you will have to install old versions of said packages.
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Probably not easy to install such an old libc, without breaking _everything_.
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paulguy wrote:Probably not easy to install such an old libc, without breaking _everything_.
according to the first post, it's working fine.
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Oh yeah it says >=. Not sure why he wouldn't have those particular packages. Probably something wrong with his set up outside of not being able to install that package, or just Ubuntu being like Windows and doing stupid crap and providing completely unuseful error messages.
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Re: Working ZSNES netplay builds for Ubuntu

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magneticanomaly wrote:make sure you have the ia32 libs installed
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