DosBox 0.74

[kinkinkijkin]

I downloaded it, I extracted it, but I can't use or install it. Help?(I use Ubuntu 10.04)

[kinkinkijkin]

Really, please help me. Just tell me how to run DosBox after extracting the tar.gz file so that I may emulate like crazy and use the boot feature to boot windows from here in Ubuntu, or rise larger than windows and run Minix.

[achase79]

just install it from the repositories using synaptic package manager

[ELD]

just install it from the repositories using synaptic package manager

+ This.

Also for your posts try actually telling us what happens. What have you tried, did you try it in a terminal window (if you don't know how to do that...google it).

It pains me every time i see a "omg help me x doesn't work" type of post where no information is given.

DosBox is available in Software Centre as well.

[achase79]

I believe kinkinkijkin downloaded the source and would have to compile and install from it to use that download. And from another post, didn't know about synaptic package manager.

[djhk]

DosBox 0.74 is currently not available via the channel.
Only 0.73 is available.

[rCXer]

Try this...

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake
sudo apt-get build-dep dosbox
wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dosbox/dosbox/0.74/dosbox-0.74.tar.gz"
tar -xvf dosbox-0.74.tar.gz
cd dosbox-0.74
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

[CharmyBee]

Try this...

tar -xvf dosbox-0.74.tar.gz
cd dosbox-0.73

Oops?

[rCXer]

Fixed it. Thanks

[sunshinecorp]

The code worked beautifully and DOSBox 0.74 has been flawlessly installed on my system (Lucid). A theoretical question: how can I remove it, since the package doesn't appear on the software center or on synaptics? Thanks.