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From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: rerror on installing dosemu-1.2.2
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:14:18 +0100
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vanparijs henri wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> This version of dosemu is to be installed on a Pentium-II
> 700MHz PC/384MB ram/6GB HDD running the Symply Mepis distro.
> 
> After downloading the tarball in the home directory followed
> by: 
> tar zxvf dosemu-1.2.2.tar.gz
> cd dosemu-1.2.2 
> ./configure
> (got already an error stating lex or flex is missing) 
> make 
> and as root: make install

[..]

> PS: on the www I found a "dosemu for dummies" and that's what I
> followed for the installation.

A source install needs compilation tools (as "dosemu for dummies" 
says). If mepis is Debian-based, you could try (as root; you 
become root by means of the su command)

    apt-get install flex

and try again from ./configure onward.

Regards, Jan