How To Install 32 bit ZSNES without chroot on amd64

[cborga1985]

Notice: This only works for Dapper at the moment.
If you find another way, let me know and I will update this post with you credited.

This is my first howto so don't be too harsh on me please. I recommend you copy and paste to simplify this howto.

Step 1 Open Terminal
Alt+F2 on keyboard and paste this

gnome-terminal

now click run or just hit enter/return

Step 2 Download ZSNES package

wget http://71.200.156.30/Custom%20Debs/zsnes/zsnes_cvs20060815-1_i386.deb

or
In Terminal Paste

firefox http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W59RU0HO

Then type in the random letters/numbers in the box in the upper right corner
Then Click Download of course. Save it somewhere and then cd in terminal to where you saved it.

Step 3 Install the depends

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl ia32-alsa-oss nasm

Step 4 Install ZSNES package

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture zsnes_cvs20060815-1_i386.deb

P.S. Don't use that very often as that is kind of dangerous.

[cborga1985]

Edit: Moderator feel free to remove #2 post.

[cborga1985]

Edit: Moderator feel free to remove #3 post.

[infinit1]

Nice job, and thanks.

[glenn45]

Thanks for this guide. Finally i can convince my girlfriend to use ubuntu and i am one step closer to deleting my windows partition. Zsnes is one of the reason why i keep my computer on dual boot. Hopefully with this guide i can let her be weaned away from windows. hehehehe. Thanks!

[cborga1985]

Thanks for this guide. Finally i can convince my girlfriend to use ubuntu and i am one step closer to deleting my windows partition. Zsnes is one of the reason why i keep my computer on dual boot. Hopefully with this guide i can let her be weaned away from windows. hehehehe. Thanks!

no problem

[incubus]

Good job, cborga!
It works flawlessly, even the audio.

Thanks a lot.

incubus

[Jingu]

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-alsa-oss
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ia32-alsa-oss

I'm pretty sure I have all the repositories enabled.
Everything else seemed to install correctly.

[moxfyre]

This strategy worked great for me under dapper, but doesn't work any longer under edgy or feisty as far as I can tell

The ia32-alsa-oss package isn't available, and zsnes can't find libncurses when it starts (why zsnes needs ncurses is beyond me...)

ldd `which zsnes`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7f64000)
        libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xf7edc000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ec4000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0 (0xf7ea1000)
        libncurses.so.5 => not found
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 (0xf7e32000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7d4d000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7d25000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7d1a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7bd8000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libasound.so.2 (0xf7b16000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7b12000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7a49000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf7a3c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f8f000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xf7a36000)
        libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.2 (0xf7a2f000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7a2c000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7a27000)

It seems that if there were a way to install the 32-bit ncurses library, zsnes would probably work. Any thoughts?

[cborga1985]

This strategy worked great for me under dapper, but doesn't work any longer under edgy or feisty as far as I can tell

The ia32-alsa-oss package isn't available, and zsnes can't find libncurses when it starts (why zsnes needs ncurses is beyond me...)

ldd `which zsnes`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7f64000)
        libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xf7edc000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ec4000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0 (0xf7ea1000)
        libncurses.so.5 => not found
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 (0xf7e32000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7d4d000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7d25000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7d1a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7bd8000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libasound.so.2 (0xf7b16000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7b12000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7a49000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf7a3c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f8f000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xf7a36000)
        libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.2 (0xf7a2f000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7a2c000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7a27000)

It seems that if there were a way to install the 32-bit ncurses library, zsnes would probably work. Any thoughts?

nothing personal but stuff like this is why i don't use edgy. maybe someone with edgy can figure this out.