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dosemu currently does not depend on dosemu-freedos

Asked by audiophyl

Hello,

I attempted to install dosemu using the Add/Remove menu option, but since it will not force the install of the package dosemu-freedos it will not function.

Searching for dosemu-freedos within the Add/Remove window yields no results. Fortunately, I was able to select dosemu-freedos using Synaptic instead.

I am proposing that selection of dosemu in the Add/Remove program will also select dosemu-freedos. It might also be worthwhile to select a package containing a fixed-width console font that might look 'pretty' within dosemu.

Just an idea!

-Philip

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

I note that dosemu-freedos is a "recommends" for DOSEMU and not a "depends" which would lead to the behaviour that you have seen.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/otherosfs/dosemu
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/otherosfs/dosemu
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/otherosfs/dosemu

This should possibly be reported as a bug in the DOSEMU package. You can do that here:-

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu/+bugs

However it is arguable that you might want to use DOSEMU without the freedos package. It's possible you might want to use another DOS than freedos.

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