2009/11/11 Jeremy Nicoll - roinfo <[email protected]>:
> Dave Symes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> While I was following the cli tedium, I thought one of the lines on my
>> printout looked a bit sus., so I dug out the original HTML version.
>> Whoopsy... The below pasted line had a chunk missing.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion liballegro4.2
>> liballegro4.2-dev liballegro4.2-plugin-jack unzip wget
>
> I've never installed this (I lurk here because I think I might install it
> one day, but I'll need a working linux system first).
>
> It occurs to me to wonder why you have a listing with lots of commands in it
> that need c&p to a command line?  Is this listing prepared by whoever
> provides rpcemu?  If so, could they not instead prepare a few, or a lot (for
> all I know) of standard scripts called, say,
>
>  CLI1  CLI2  CLI3  CLI4 ...
>
> so you'd just run them in turn?  It seems to me that there's huge scope for
> someone typing one of those commands incorrectly.

I don't think it's as simple as that. Part of the installation is
installing the ROM images in the right place but they can't be
included in the distribution so it really depends on how and where the
user has got them from. I'm not sure there's really a simple solution.
Ideally it would be packaged so you could do:

$ apt-get rpcemu

and it would all be installed for you but the ROM images can't be
distributed like that so it would still need some user intervention
and I doubt there's anyone to do the work anyway. I suppose it could
install everything for you and then leave you to copy the ROMs to the
right place but that still doesn't overcome the problem of needing
someone to do the packaging.

There's always RPC Emu on Puppy Linux Live CD
(http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/puppyguide/Announcement.htm) for those
who have an aversion to CLI work - most people I imagine. :-)

Cheers,

Ollie

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