Installing E-UAE on Ubuntu

[Harrison]

Nice little guide Alex. Should be very useful. Just shows how user unfriendly Linux can still be, just to add a menu icon to launch an application. I've not run E-UAE using Ubuntu yet, and this has made me want to.

BTW, someone on EAB submitted E-UAE for inclusion into the Synaptic package manager a long time ago. I wonder why it still isn't in there? Or is it? I need to check.

There are also some frontends for E-UAE on Linux, and I did start to write a guide about using them, but haven't yet finished. So I could combine the two, or add a linux section into the site FAQs.

[AlexJ]

Nice little guide Alex. Should be very useful. Just shows how user unfriendly Linux can still be, just to add a menu icon to launch an application.

Thanks! I could do some screenshots to illustrate some points if that would help?

I'm not sure it's that unfriendly - adding an icon is almost the same as windows if you think about it (you right click in Start, Programs on windows instead of the Ubuntu icon, click add new shortcut instead on new item and type C:\Program Files\WinUAE\WinUAE.exe instead of usr/bin/uae-sdl) It's just the different file structure that makes it seem complicated.

E-UAE isn't in the universe component of the software manager, hence the need to add in a new component as the first step. Perhaps it will be moved into the universe in the next version of Ubuntu (April 2008).

[Harrison]

Except in Windows you can just find the program and drag it into the start menu to automatically create a shortcut icon in there.