Dosemu with Kubuntu 12.04

Dosemu with Kubuntu 12.04

[Keith]

     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?
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Keith Sayers                                           keith@keithsayers.id.au
6 Clambe Place
CHARNWOOD, ACT 2615
Australia                                         http://www.keithsayers.id.au
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Re: Dosemu with Kubuntu 12.04

[Paul Crawford]

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
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Dundee University
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