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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> I downloaded the SW9.1 package and it does not seem to contain the
> required libSDL-1.2.so.0.  It is mainly man pages which I am not going to
> look at and header files - do I need those?  There is  also
> /usr/share/aclocal/sdl.m4 - does this generate the library?  I prefer not
> to install the whole package and then delete most of it.


tar -ztvf listed only some of the files, the library files were also there 
but did not get listed for some reason.  I unpackaged, copied the 
libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.6 file to /usr/lib and symlinked it to libSDL-1.2.so.0.
ldd is now happy.  The file is about 400K.

There is a 573K libSDL.a which I doubt we need here and two other *a which 
I did not copy over.  And I have not installed any .h files.

> > l/esound-0.2.29-i386-1.tgz
> > l/arts-1.1-i386-2.tgz
> > l/audiofile-0.2.3-i386-3.tgz

> These may only be needed for the sound and audio functions of SDL, which
> is needed for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and audio.  I only want the first
> of these.

No such luck.
qemu --help

qemu:  error while loading shared libraries:  libasound.so.2:  cannot open 
shared object file:  No such file or directory.

I downloaded these SW91 packages:
esound 138K, audiofile 159K, arts 1.3MB.

The esound package contains two libraries, libesd.so (36K) and 
libesddsp.so (7K).

Audiofile package:  libaudiofile.so  145K

The arts package contains a bunch of libraries in /opt/kde/lib totalling 
about 4MB.


None of these is the libasound.so.2 nor does doinst.sh mention it.  It 
seems to be related to alsa sound - do I need it to actually run qemu or 
just to use the --help feature?  Does qemu --help work for you, James?

I will get the FreeDOS image and experiment tomorrow without these last 
three packages or asound.

Sindi