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First post, by Bitfresser

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Hello,

I have troubles in installing DOSBox SVN Daum on my Debian Wheezy system (64bit).
I'm absolutely new in Linux. I require DOSBox SVN Daum to access my parallel port for driving a DOS program with a dongle.

I have downloaded the latest version of the program from http://ykhwong.x-y.net.

When I execute the program "dosbox", I get the message that I have no rights to execute.

When I provide the respective rights to the program "dosbox" and I call it, then I get the message:
- file or directory not found

Can anyone help me?

Reply 1 of 5, by Dominus

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Generally you will have to contact Ykhwong directly for support with his SVN build. As with his OS X build I guess he made too many assumptions of where stuff is supposed to be without giving instructions...

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 2 of 5, by Bitfresser

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Thanks for the quick response!

Meanwhile I found out the problem. The current version is a 32bit version, which I can run under 64bit-linux after including 32bit architecture:
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# apt-get install ia32-libs

However, running the program requires GLIBC_2.15, GLIBC_2.16 and GLIBC_2.17 that are on the libc6-dev package.
This is experimental:
# apt-get -t experimental install libc6-dev

Is there anybody, who can compile a 64bit version of the DOSBox SVN Daum? I'm unable to solve out all the occuring compilation errors.

Reply 4 of 5, by Bitfresser

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Thanks for that advise.

I found out that installing the (unstable) experimental libc6-dev package leads to a lot of errors under Debian.

Under Ubuntu, the GLIBC_2.15, GLIBC_2.16 and GLIBC_2.17 are already available in the stable version. So I recommend to use DOSBox SVN Daum with Ubuntu and not with Debian.

Reply 5 of 5, by Bitfresser

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Interessting detail:

According to this HP:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1310634

you should use nc.openbsd for redirecting the lpt1 port to a network printer. I tested it and found out, that nc.openbsd blocks the respective printer for everybody in the network, as it steadily keeps the connection by the while-loop.

I recommend to redirect the lpt1 port to a network printer based on the lpr command of cups. It must however be set based on the -l flag, as the prt-files output by dosbox are already formatted.

A good script shoud thus be:

while true do cat /dev/netcatprint | lpr -l done […]
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while true
do
cat /dev/netcatprint | lpr -l
done

Do not forget to set a standard printer in advance.