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dosemu package

Please fix DOSEMU & FREEDOS so they work on Feisty & Gutsy

Asked by Joseph A. Millikan on 2007-08-23

I upgraded Edgy to Feisty with less than satisfactory results. When it asked me whether to "keep" or "replace" my /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf file, I chose to replace it with an updated version. (Turns out this was a very bad idea.) After rebooting into Feisty, to my horror DOSEMU no longer worked. So, I went to Synaptic Package Manager and tried up update and I was advised of a dependency problem. So, I removed DOSEMU, FREEDOS, XDOS-fonts only to discover for whatever reason DOSEMU is no longer installable.

This could have been catastrophic if I hadn't had the foresight to image my Edgy system. Imagine losing 12 years of data because DOSEMU no longer works. This is a critical error, IMO, that needs fixing immediately in both Feisty and Gutsy if I am ever to upgrade.

Thanks for listening.

Joe

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Solved by:
Dmitry Mityugov
Solved:
2007-08-27
Last query:
2007-08-27
Last reply:
2007-08-26
DaveThacker (dthacker9) said : #1

Joe,
Please file a bug on luanchpad, detailing the problems you had. That will get the attention of the right people.
Thanks. Dave

Joseph A. Millikan (jamillikan) said : #2

I filed a bug on launchpad. Hopefully this will be resolved/fixed soon.

Joe

Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : #3

Hello Joe,

When I run

apt-cache search dosemu

on my copy of Ubuntu 7.04 32-bit, I get this:

console-cyrillic - Better Cyrillic support for Linux console
xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
dosemu - The Linux DOS Emulator
dosemu-freedos - FreeDOS package for DOSEMU
xfonts-dosemu - VGA font for the DOS Emulator

so it seems all packages you are looking for are available for installation. Are you sure you enabled all required repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list?

I can try to install any packages from the list above to make sure they can be actually installed if you wish

Joseph A. Millikan (jamillikan) said : #4

Hello, Dmitry.

Please try to install DOSEMU. Then, try to install dosemu-freedos. I get a message about unmet dependencies.

Hope this helps and they fix this "issue."

Joe

Best Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : #5

Did this, here is the output. Can't see anything wrong with it. Let me ask again: are you sure all required repositories are enabled?

dd@walrus704:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get install dosemu
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  xfonts-dosemu
Recommended packages:
  dosemu-freedos
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dosemu
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 970kB of archives.
After unpacking 2257kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse dosemu 1.2.2-8 [970kB]
Fetched 970kB in 16s (58.0kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dosemu.
(Reading database ... 127427 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dosemu (from .../dosemu_1.2.2-8_i386.deb) ...
Setting up dosemu (1.2.2-8) ...

dd@walrus704:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get install dosemu-freedos
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dosemu-freedos
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1148kB of archives.
After unpacking 3445kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse dosemu-freedos 1:0.0.b9r5a-3 [1148kB]
Fetched 1148kB in 18s (60.4kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dosemu-freedos.
(Reading database ... 127559 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dosemu-freedos (from .../dosemu-freedos_1%3a0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up dosemu-freedos (0.0.b9r5a-3) ...
dd@walrus704:/etc/apt$

Joseph A. Millikan (jamillikan) said : #6

Thanks Dmitry Mityugov, that solved my question.