[clug] USB to RS232 DB9 Adapter
Eyal Lebedinsky
eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Wed Aug 7 22:54:43 UTC 2019
On 08/08/2019 00.02, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
> Sorry, Steve:
>
>>>> DOSBox is more for old DOS games than running DOS programs, you might
>>>> have more luck with DOSEmu.
>>>
>>> Neither Ubuntu Software nor Synaptic Package Manager list that.
>> Did you try a lower case version of the name?
>
> Yes--no good.
>
>> It certainly exists on
>> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>
> Ubuntu Software lists emu2, which I installed. But launching from the former--crashed emu2. Also neither Activities GUI nor apropos in Terminal could find it. So I removed emu2!
>
>> $ sudo apt search dosemu
>> Sorting... Done
>> Full Text Search... Done
>> <snip>
>>
>> dosemu/xenial 1.4.0.7+20130105+b028d3f-2 amd64
>> DOS Emulator for Linux
>
> That only gave this.
>
> {
> console-cyrillic/bionic,bionic 0.9-17 all
> Cyrillic fonts and keyboard layouts for Linux console
>
> xfonts-terminus-dos/bionic,bionic 4.40-2 all
> Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
> }
>
>> A google for 'Ubuntu 18.04 DOSemu' suggests it also exists on later
>> versions.
>
> I was out of luck.
>
> In Ubuntu Software, I searched for "DOS emulator".
> Getting this list:
> * dosbox-jz;
> * emu2;
> * jindosbox;
> * jinhjdosbox;
> * DOSBox-X; and
> * DOSBox Emulator.
The fact that Steve can see the package and you cannot may suggest that you have different
repositories configured in
/etc/apt/sources.list
--
Eyal at Home (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
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