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I can find it listed when I search for "zsnes" in the Ubuntu Software Center but it doesn't have the "Install" button. If I click the "More information" button I'll get a "package not found" message.

Synaptic can't find this package either.

(from user @REJ) I have Natty 64bit. When I run sudo apt-get install zsnes it gives the following output:

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
Eliah Kagan
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Mike L
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zsnes exists in the Universe repository for 32bit Natty only.

If you look here on launchpad for the zsnes package, you'll note there is no 64bit package available - just the 32bit (i386) package.

To get this to work under 64bit requires a bit of terminal work...

Download the 32bit package from here into your Downloads folder.

Install all the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libao4 libc6 libgcc1 libgl1-mesa-glx libpng12-0 libsdl1.2debian libstdc++6 zlib1g

Then do the following:

cd ~/Downloads
dpkg -x zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu4_i386.deb zsnes_dir
cd zsnes_dir/usr/bin

You can now run the application by running

./zsnes -ad sdl

source

fossfreedom
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simply run this command first

apt-get build-dep zsnes

It'll download and install all the 32bit dependencies to get zsnes to run. Next you just install zsnes as usual using this command

apt-get install zsnes

finally, after you have successfully installed zsnes we just want to get rid of the dependencies we needed to install/build it by simply running this command

aptitude markauto $(apt-cache showsrc zsnes | grep Build-Depends | perl -p -e 's/(?:[\[(].+?[\])]|Build-Depends:|,|\|)//g')
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I thought I'd share a different strategy that I ran across in the search for installing ZSNES on amd64.

If you don't mind using a different emulator (a better one in my opinion), there is a port of SNES9x available.

First, add these sources to your sources.list file in etc/apt.

to edit the file as root, open your terminal and type: 

cd etc/apt
sudo gedit sources.list

Once that is opened, add these two lines into the textfile, and save:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bearoso/ppa/ubuntu raring main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bearoso/ppa/ubuntu raring main

ALSO, REPLACE "raring" WITH WHATEVER VERSION OF UBUNTU YOU ARE RUNNING CURRENTLY.

Then, in your terminal, type:

sudo apt-get update

Once that is done, install the program using this command:

sudo apt-get install snes9x-gtk

Once installed, just search for the app in your dashboard, and run it!

Config is simple, and it's a great emu in my opinion, it's been around for years, and this port works great so far.

-Chris

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    The recommended way to add a PPA is to either add ppa:bearoso/ppa as the deb line entry in the Software and Updates tool or to run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bearoso/ppa from the Terminal. More detailed instructions can be found from http://askubuntu.com/q/4983/8973 – papukaija Jul 01 '13 at 23:36
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This worked for me on my desktop, but not for my old laptop.

Have tried a lot of thing to get a working snes emulator. When i was giving it up, i downloaded zsnes for windows and accidentially ran it, and it worked!! I did install PLAYONLINUX from software center some time before that, basically it runs great with WINE. Just make a folder on your desktop (or where you like) and put the downloaded zsnes file there and run it :) If you have problems with gamepad, install JSTEST-GTK and calibrate!!

Hope this help some people..

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