From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Crawford Subject: Re: Dosemu with Kubuntu 12.04 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:53:38 +0100 Message-ID: <53B687B2.1010001@sat.dundee.ac.uk> References: <5017661.iIchr13aUQ@tsunami> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5017661.iIchr13aUQ@tsunami> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Keith , linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org On 04/07/14 11:25, Keith wrote: > I am wishful of running one DOS program - Family Scrapbook - on Kubuntu > 12.04. I have therefore downloaded dosemu-1.4.0.tgz, put it into its own > directory and unpacked it. That has produced a number of files one of which I > expected to be an executable which I could drag onto my desktop but I cannot > work out which that one is. I have tried some possibles but none worked. I > found the INSTALL file and read and tried to follow the console instructions > therein but just got a variety of error messages (can post them if that would > be helpful). I am obviously missing something - could anyone point me at what > it might be, please? Dear Keith, Usually you can install from the Ubuntu repository with: sudo apt-get install dosemu (It will ask for your admin password of course). Or try the software centre (or Synaptic) for a graphical version. Regards, Paul -- Dr. Paul S. Crawford Satellite Station Dundee University Small's Wynd, Dundee, DD1 4HN, U.K. The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096