Re: Dosemu with Kubuntu 12.04

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
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