Zsnes

[Van Halen Man]

I looked in the rules section and I didnt find anything that says not to mention what I am going to ask so I am assuming that it is ok... Does anyone know how to install Zsnes? I have fedora core 2 and I am soon getting Ubuntu, so does anyone know? I cant figure it out.
I know you have to be in the terminal, and I am the the right directory. There is a guide that says to type something, I dont know the exact words, but after I do it says that it cant and I dont remember why exactly and cant look because I am not on my computer.

[Cabhan]

To install it? Well, I assume you could install it through yum or apt-get. To install it manually:

cd /path/to/zsnes
cd src
./configure
make
su
make install

This is the basic way to install any program from source.

[Van Halen Man]

I keep hearing about yum. What exactly is it? and where can I get it?

[Juan Pablo]

It is a tool used to install and solve dependencies (downloading them from the internet) for RPM based distribution, it uses pre-built binaries to install the software so it is very quick and painless.

[Van Halen Man]

Well, I assumed from the internet. By "where" I meant what site. But anyways, I downloaded yum-metadata-parser-1.0.1 so how do I install it? Or is there a different one that is better?

[Cabhan]

yum comes by default with Fedora Core. At least, it does with recent versions: FC2 may not have it. I don't know.

The yum project page is at:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

You can download yum from there.

If you use Ubuntu, apt-get comes with it, and this is a _very_ powerful tool and works similarly to yum.