Dolphin on Debian

[Miika'Zorah]

Hello! I am not new to Dolphin but very new to Linux. I recently switced from being a long-time Windows user so forgive any ignorance. I am using the 'Wheezy' release of Debian 64-bit and am having trouble with installing dolhpin from the deb package. Using the same method used to install Wine ^_^. Hurray for trail & error.

Code:

****@****:~$ gdebi '/home/****/Desktop/dolphin-master-4.0-544_amd64.deb'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Building data structures... Done
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6 (>= 2.15)

Code:

****@****:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6
[sudo] password for ****:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Shonumi]

The binary from the Dolphin website was built with a newer version of libc6 (2.15). The thing is, Debian's "latest" version of libc6 is older than 2.15. You can see that updating libc6 on your system did nothing. Debian is known for being a "stable" Linux distro, and by stable they usually mean old-as-dirt software (okay, maybe that was uncalled for, but what can I say, I'm not a fan of Debian :p). You can either manually update the software yourself (compile from source), try using the Debian testing or unstable repositories to update said software, or possibly see if you can compile Dolphin yourself with these instructions: https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/wiki/Linux_Build

If you still run into trouble, you might as well try using the latest version of Ubuntu (since that's what the Dolphin buildbot uses for Linux builds, I assume) or Mint; either is certainly more user-friendly to newcomers. Once you get some more Linux skills though, consider the power of Slackware

[degasus]

Where did you get this debian build? iirc we only provide ubuntu builds, so the dependency won't match.

But compiling from source is as easy on linux. You'll have to wait for 5 minutes, but I think that's worth :-)

[Miika'Zorah]

The binary from the Dolphin website was built with a newer version of libc6 (2.15). The thing is, Debian's "latest" version of libc6 is older than 2.15. You can see that updating libc6 on your system did nothing. Debian is known for being a "stable" Linux distro, and by stable they usually mean old-as-dirt software (okay, maybe that was uncalled for, but what can I say, I'm not a fan of Debian :p). You can either manually update the software yourself (compile from source), try using the Debian testing or unstable repositories to update said software, or possibly see if you can compile Dolphin yourself with these instructions: https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/wiki/Linux_Build

If you still run into trouble, you might as well try using the latest version of Ubuntu (since that's what the Dolphin buildbot uses for Linux builds, I assume) or Mint; either is certainly more user-friendly to newcomers. Once you get some more Linux skills though, consider the power of Slackware

Like I said I am a few days into using Linux for the first time and Debian seemed like the right pick. That said I have my reasons for not getting Ubuntu or Mint. I tried getting a later version of libc6 from experimental repo and....crashed, then refused to boot. Had to reinstall. Shit. I guess the compile from source thing will have to do!

What is Slackware?

Where did you get this debian build? iirc we only provide ubuntu builds, so the dependency won't match.

But compiling from source is as easy on linux. You'll have to wait for 5 minutes, but I think that's worth :-)

It's the Ubuntu build from the official page, I was just hoping it worked anyway. Trail and Error tends to be like that I'll try compiling.

[Shonumi]

Slackware is only the best Linux distro ever </propaganda> Google it if you want to know more, but don't try using it if you're completely new to Linux :p

The compilation process should be straightforward enough, but feel free to ask if you have any questions. Occassionally some things go wrong (mostly for Ubuntu users it seems, lately anyway) but it shouldn't be too much trouble.

[Miika'Zorah]

Maybe I'll consider it in the far future . Not that I'm not a quick learner. >_>

Alright, I managed to compile it and started up dolphin but I don't have any games ripped yet so real testing will have to wait. How do I update builds? "git pull origin", go to path and repeat the installation? Also I got a few build dependancies, those listed at the end, AFTER installing dolphin (the one for BT, ect), does it matter? Thanks!


EDIT: Since we're on the subject and since ngemu.com refuses to send me an activation email, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get VBA-M on debian? I did some magic with a .deb package I got of the sourceforge page and got it working but it's a rediculously outdated version.

[Shonumi]

Yeah, just use git pull origin and make and then make install. You can use make -j5 to speed things up a bit. The optional dependencies will only matter of you rebuild your current revision of Dolphin or build a new revision. In other words, you'll have to recompile to get the benefits of, say libbluetooth for native Wiimote support.

For VBAM, you can pull the latest source from their SVN and compile it. Additionally, try grabbing the Ubuntu repos for a newer VBAM package. Aside from some bug fixes, I'm not.sure there are a lot of differences between 1.8.0 and the latest. Note that the GTK+ Linux version isn't as advanced as the Windows version. Functionally though, they play the same games equally.