Huh. This is going to save me some time. I was installing everthing manually. (nasm, libsdl ,- mind you, ldsdl needs like, 8 other .deb files. , gmake, etc) Thank you.
Works great except for – no sound
I’ve tried the killall esd and it says that nothing has been killed…
Any help on getting sound with this would be very appreciated
This walkthrough worked out very well. Im glad it works so easy. I think Im starting to understand why Im doing these things like this the more I read about linux. Im one of the newly converted from the windows world. Thank god there is finally an alternative that can do all the things I need to do. Lovin Ubuntu so far.
Hmmm everything seemed to work ok but I also, have no sound as well. Everything else seems to work just fine except for the fact that I have no sound in the emulator. Really wish I knew why this might be happening but I dont know enough about how Linux works to analyze the problem.
sudo apt-get install zsnes desktop
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package zsnes is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zsnes has no installation candidate
help I think that my synaptic is broken because when ever open it it comes up saying W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://update.eeepc.asus.com common/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/update.eeepc.asus.com_1.6_dists_common_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://update.eeepc.asus.com p704/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/update.eeepc.asus.com_1.6_dists_p704_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://download.tuxfamily.org p701/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_eeepcrepos_dists_p701_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
can some one help me!!
By the way can any one tell me where to get kpackage from? There is a guy who will tell me every thing I need to do but he says on his website that I need kpackage. Please help. I will be very greatfull. 🙂
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
michael@michael-laptop:~$
======================END================
i am linux noob coming from windows. the znes do sent appear in my menu under applications>games. please reply to mccrmi@yahoo.com because i might not see this page again.
if you’re reading this and are using the x64 version of ubuntu 9.10 it isn’t quite so easy and painless, zsnes is 32-bit so isn’t in the 64 bit repositories so you’ll have to force install it (which is still easy enough to be honest).
Just google “zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.deb” which is the debian package file for zsnes. I got it from here: “http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/zsnes/download”.
Once you have that, terminal to the directory where you saved it and type “sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.deb” which will force it to install.
Finally you can run it by doing “zsnes -ad sdl” in terminal or just adjust the command in the launcher menu.
most of this was grepped after much searching from here: “http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307844”
Linux Gaming Today 
January 27, 2008 at 9:09 am
Nice guide! I didnt realise Zsnes was in the repositories 🙂
January 29, 2008 at 1:01 pm
this is awesome. I wish everything was this easy to install on linux because I am a linux NOOB. works great!
April 23, 2008 at 7:26 am
My ZSnes just closes once i open it.
May 30, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Huh. This is going to save me some time. I was installing everthing manually. (nasm, libsdl ,- mind you, ldsdl needs like, 8 other .deb files. , gmake, etc) Thank you.
June 28, 2008 at 9:17 am
Hi,
Works great except for – no sound
I’ve tried the killall esd and it says that nothing has been killed…
Any help on getting sound with this would be very appreciated
thank you!
June 29, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Mine just closes once I open it. I followed all the steps. What am I doing wrong?
July 17, 2008 at 8:14 pm
This walkthrough worked out very well. Im glad it works so easy. I think Im starting to understand why Im doing these things like this the more I read about linux. Im one of the newly converted from the windows world. Thank god there is finally an alternative that can do all the things I need to do. Lovin Ubuntu so far.
July 17, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Hmmm everything seemed to work ok but I also, have no sound as well. Everything else seems to work just fine except for the fact that I have no sound in the emulator. Really wish I knew why this might be happening but I dont know enough about how Linux works to analyze the problem.
August 13, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Well, goes like this for me
sudo apt-get install zsnes desktop
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package zsnes is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zsnes has no installation candidate
August 31, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I followed the steps, but I get the error:
E: Package zsnes has no installation candidate
Thank you.
September 3, 2008 at 11:52 am
Never mind, I found out the problem. Thank you for posting this information.
September 15, 2008 at 11:29 am
I get:
sudo apt-get install zsnes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package zsnes
I know nothing about Linux, I just started using Ubuntu. What have I done wrong?
January 4, 2009 at 5:09 am
pbd, zsnes is in the ‘universe’ repository for Ubuntu. Many systems don’t have this type of software enabled by default.
You should search for tips on how to add ‘university’ to your apt source list.
I just got zsnes installed, working with sound and my joypad – Super R Type, right on!
January 4, 2009 at 5:09 am
OOps, universe that is, not ahem.. university.
January 4, 2009 at 7:08 am
help I think that my synaptic is broken because when ever open it it comes up saying W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://update.eeepc.asus.com common/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/update.eeepc.asus.com_1.6_dists_common_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://update.eeepc.asus.com p704/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/update.eeepc.asus.com_1.6_dists_p704_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://download.tuxfamily.org p701/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_eeepcrepos_dists_p701_main_binary-i386_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
can some one help me!!
January 4, 2009 at 7:47 am
By the way can any one tell me where to get kpackage from? There is a guy who will tell me every thing I need to do but he says on his website that I need kpackage. Please help. I will be very greatfull. 🙂
January 17, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I tried this and got the znes emulator, but whenever I try launching it nothing happens. Can someone please help me?
January 18, 2009 at 7:46 pm
HEY!
this is awesome… but zsnes doesnt actually open…… at all.
please help,
ubuntu 8.10 intrepid
peace thank you
January 23, 2009 at 6:30 pm
nice job!i like it!
March 15, 2009 at 1:48 pm
WHAT is THe E: Couldn’t find package zsnes FAULT??????
April 2, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Muchas gracias amigo, hice tal cual indicas y todo espectacular, muchas gracias, y muchos exitos.
thanks vert much.
June 3, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Thanks for the clear and concise instructions dude, ZSNES on Unbuntu = awesome.
June 16, 2009 at 12:24 am
So does anyone know of a good place to get good bundles or do i have to download roms one at a time
June 24, 2009 at 2:44 pm
How do you get the game on the Zsnes emulator??
August 14, 2009 at 5:34 pm
please help me, this is what i do/happens( followed the guide to the letter.)
michael@michael-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists… Done
michael@michael-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install zsnes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libao2
Suggested packages:
libaudio2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libao2 zsnes
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 921kB of archives.
After this operation, 4329kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main libao2 0.8.8-4ubuntu1 [25.5kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe zsnes 1.510-2.2ubuntu2 [895kB]
Fetched 921kB in 11s (82.6kB/s)
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and 31 columns wide.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously deselected package libao2.
(Reading database … 104941 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libao2 (from …/libao2_0.8.8-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package zsnes.
Unpacking zsnes (from …/zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up libao2 (0.8.8-4ubuntu1) …
Setting up zsnes (1.510-2.2ubuntu2) …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
michael@michael-laptop:~$
======================END================
i am linux noob coming from windows. the znes do sent appear in my menu under applications>games. please reply to mccrmi@yahoo.com because i might not see this page again.
September 27, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I get the same error as the last 3 posters. Any help? Am new to Linux.
October 30, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Never mind, I found out the problem. Thank you for posting this information.
thanks for posting your solution idiot
December 6, 2009 at 10:22 am
For everyone having the errors where you can’t find the package zsnes, or it has no installation candidate:
It is very likely that the package has been removed from ubuntu. I’m not sure what is the replacement snes emulator.
December 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm
This package is not available in Ubuntu 9.10 maybe!!!
March 11, 2010 at 4:13 am
if you’re reading this and are using the x64 version of ubuntu 9.10 it isn’t quite so easy and painless, zsnes is 32-bit so isn’t in the 64 bit repositories so you’ll have to force install it (which is still easy enough to be honest).
Just google “zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.deb” which is the debian package file for zsnes. I got it from here: “http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/zsnes/download”.
Once you have that, terminal to the directory where you saved it and type “sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.deb” which will force it to install.
Finally you can run it by doing “zsnes -ad sdl” in terminal or just adjust the command in the launcher menu.
most of this was grepped after much searching from here: “http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307844”
May 9, 2010 at 5:15 am
Thanks a lot for this. You certainly saved me a lot of time and made this entire process much easier.
June 30, 2010 at 10:35 am
wow thank you so much i just spent a whole day tring to install it i didnt realize it was in apt-get