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Stéphane Tréboux
Asked: 2023-10-18 00:17:57 +0800 CST

The SNES emulator ZSNES was removed when updating to Kubuntu 23.10 (mantic)

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The SNES emulator ZSNES was removed when updating to Kubuntu 23.10 (mantic).

A package search shows that ZSNES is available only up to 23.04 (lunar).

Why was it removed and where can I find it or an alternative for it?

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  1. Best Answer

    The package zsnes was maintained by Debian and the maintainer decided to remove it because the development of ZSNES has ceased in 2007.

    The issue is discussed in two Debian bug reports:

    The maintainer suggests several alternatives (which I did not test):

    If you don't want to look into alternatives yet, you can still download the latest package for zsnes and install with sudo dpkg -i zsnes_1.510+bz2-10.2_i386.deb. It works for me under Kubuntu 23.10 (mantic). But at some point the package will break and it will not be fixed, so use at your own risk. Only the architecture i386 is offered, more recent CPU architectures will not be supported.

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