Then you need dosbox-x’s build dependencies. On Debian/Ubuntu you can get this by installing build-essential. The instructions below apply to both 32- and 64-bit builds.įirstly you need the stuff to build anything. Doing it is time consuming rather than difficult and if you aren't computer-savvy enough to built it you'll struggle to use it. It took me months to fathom how to build it successfully so here’s what I learnt. Unfortunately Dosbox-x's documentation is still far from complete - not surprising as the people involved with it concentrate their efforts on the software itself - and they seem to assume people already know how to do this. The best thing is to really build DOSBox-X yourself as that has the greatest chance of the result being suitable for your computer. The version of DOSBox-X offered here is now quite old but there have been no major improvements made upstream since it was built. To launch it type dosbox-x in a termninal or start it from the menu. When the download has completed you can install it by double-clicking it or entering sudo dpkg -i dosbox-x_0.83.x_i386_.deb from a terminal. For all that it is 32-bit it can be used on a 64-bit system if you run the command sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386 before installing it or have done so in the past.Ĭlick releases, then dosbox-x_0.83.x_i386_.deb to download it. If one doesn't work, try the other and if both fail see next section. Two versions are available, one built on Buster and one on Stretch. It has only been tested on Debian so what versions of the Ubuntu family it may be compatible with I don't know. It is however offered strictly 'as is' with no promises that it will work for anybody else. It took me a lot of blood, toil, tears and sweat to get it working and having done so I may as well share the fruits of my labours with anybody else who wants it. Uses of Debian-derived systems can however download that, open it with an archive manager and extract the binary. Its main repository only provides a 64-bit one and that is packed in. The sole purpose of this repository is to provide a 32-bit Linux binary of DOSBox-X.
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