Good morning,

Writing in this echo as everyone in it runs some form of Linux. ;) I
had dosemu working perfectly, but ubuntu being ubuntu upgraded to 20.04
and they have removed the package and un installed it.

Anyone know how to majoodle it back in?

Shawn


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Good morning,

Writing in this echo as everyone in it runs some form of Linux. ;) I had dosemu working perfectly, but ubuntu being ubuntu upgraded to 20.04 and they have removed the package and un installed it.

Anyone know how to majoodle it back in?

Tiny,

Someone posted this link earlier: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+package/dosemu

For me, as no 20.04 support has been released, I just installed the package from a previous release. Paraphrasing from memory:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ bionic main"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install dosemu

You'd need to change the distro name to whatever you were upgrading from
(e.g. bionic, xenial, etc.).

Hope that helps!


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sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ bionic main"

sudo apt-get update

This is not a good idea! I'd remove that from your sources.list ASAP. This
will make upgrades risky.

The real answer for what to do would be download latest dosemu source,
compile it, install it. Problem solved forever :)

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sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ bionic main"

sudo apt-get update

This is not a good idea! I'd remove that from your sources.list ASAP.
This will make upgrades risky.

The real answer for what to do would be download latest dosemu source, compile it, install it. Problem solved forever :)

Yeah, that's true, people should def. install from source rather than mix systems/versions.

However, for me, I'm fine with dealing with version conflicts around
dosemu until there's an official release. Doesn't mean things won't break
in the interim, but I've been running 20.04 since before release and things have been stable with this setup.


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sudo add-apt-repository "deb

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ bionic Al> main"

sudo apt-get update

This is not a good idea! I'd remove that from your
sources.list ASAP. This will make upgrades risky.

The real answer for what to do would be download latest dosemu
source, compile it, install it. Problem solved forever :)

Yeah, that's true, people should def. install from source rather
than mix systems/versions.

While I wouldn't add an entire repository from an old version, I don't
see the harm in just installing the dosemu package from an earlier
release. They removed it from debian 10 too, I just grabbed the debian 9
deb and installed it with dpkg.

Of course you could install it from source - but if you do, I'd install
it into it's own prefix, say /opt/dosemu or something, that way you can
easily remove it later if you want to.

Andrew


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Quoting Alpha to Tiny <=-

For me, as no 20.04 support has been released, I just installed the package from a previous release. Paraphrasing from memory:

Thanks.

Hope that helps!

It does. It helps push me towards my friends advice to "Install
OpenSuse and be happy". ;)

Shawn

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Quoting apam to Alpha <=-

While I wouldn't add an entire repository from an old version, I don't
see the harm in just installing the dosemu package from an earlier release. They removed it from debian 10 too, I just grabbed the debian
9 deb and installed it with dpkg.

I'm going to grab the deb from the link posted earlier and give that
one shot, if it causes me grief I'm done fighting with ubuntu. Seems
every year I jump through hoops for some reason or another.

Shawn

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Replying to a msg dated 01 Jun 20 10:28, from me to apam.

So didn't like OpenSuse so I compiled dosemu from source. But of course now the doors don't work as the dickhead deleted the config file. Back to the drawing board. LOL


Shawn


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apam wrote to Alpha <=-

While I wouldn't add an entire repository from an old version, I don't
see the harm in just installing the dosemu package from an earlier release. They removed it from debian 10 too, I just grabbed the debian
9 deb and installed it with dpkg.

That is how I do it, and I actually think I might be using the one from
debian 8. The newer one from 9 broke a bunch of my DOS bbs utilities.


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