Repositories

[mt12345]

I did not find my favourite programs in official repos:
scummvm, e-uae, mame...

Is it safe to add Mandriva or another 3rd party repositories?
Does someone have a list?

[wobo]

If you know what you are doing you can add any 3rd party repo. If not (if you are an unexperienced user) you should stay with the official repos (a rule of thumb).
You can try if the Mandriva 2010.2 package of your favourite app installs, you may be lucky: download the Mandriva rpm and try to install it with

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urpmi /path-to-download-folder/complete-package-name

[mt12345]

Will it resolve dependencies automatically?

[wobo]

Only the dependencies which can be resolved from Mageia repos.

[mt12345]

Added Mandriva 2010.2 and PLF repos; uae, mame and scummvm seem to work.

[wobo]

You should not add those repos - or at least not activate them. As I wrote, you can be lucky but you can also make a mess of your system.

After this warning, certainly you are free to do whatever you want.

[mt12345]

Well you're right, it wasn't good idea. Actually only SCUMMVM works properly. I was thinking of switching to Mandriva, but current version is outdated and it doesn't detect my scanner. Maybe Fedora? Fusion?

[mt12345]

Mandriva 2010.2 compared to Mageia is outdated. Perhaps I would be better to install packages from 'cooker'?

[doktor5000]

Better with up-to-date packages yes. But worse in regards as a stable system.

[spring]

I have mame running on KDE Mageia 2.

i installed the following .rpm in this order:

sdlmame-0.146-1mdv2010.2.i586
liblzma2-4.999.9beta-2mdv2010.1.i586
libarchive2-2.8.3-1.2mdv2010.2.i586
gmameui-0.2.12-1plf2010.1.i586

There are quite a few issues, but it does build a gamelist, audit roms and will run things.

It may be a disaster as time passes, but it's so far cool enuf for me to play QIX and 1942 without any mad bailouts..

gmameui has plenty of this nonsense in the terminal:

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(gmameui:5494): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gmameui:5494): CRITICAL **: mame_get_option_string: assertion `opt != NULL' failed


but, like i said, it's running games and is better then nothing!

[MauRice]

Better is a rebuild from the SRPM.

[spring]

Of coarse, a rebuild of gmameui would be preferable, it might even do away with the problems hanging over from the mandriva compile - like being unable to set some directorys, and not having the SNAP pictures (etc.) working in the gui, but i'm just sayin' - using the mandy .rpms is a fast way to some satisfaction.. Have to say though, the version of SDLmame leaves ALOT to be desired. broken neo-geo driver, many basic vector games borked etc. etc. but who cares, for 5 minutes messing about, i'm pleased..

Also: i should point out, i downloaded the rpms direct, i didn't add the plf or any mandy repos, just googled up the rpms and tooke the most likely to work.

[spring]

Update:

I switched to 64bit mageia recently, so decided i'd bite the bullet and compile sdlmame properly..

I got pi$$ed off with going round in circles, so i got this rpm from rpm.pbone.net: "sdlmame-0.147-0.1.src.rpm Mandrake Other 31636 kB" and read a bit of this thread: http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads. ... 138&page=1

gcc-c++ & lib64sdl-devel (and dependencys) needed to be installed, i guess i had gcc already there.

the rpm would not install properly, so i ended up extracting it instead, then extracting the main archive to get mame.zip, then extracted that, all in a folder in my /home.

into the folder that had the 'makefile' in it, opened a terminal, su, make clean, make, and after a while i ended up with a nice 'mame64' binary. i just copied this to my old mame32 folder (with roms and so on in the usual folders) and i can now ./mame64 from there and the gui appears! new experience for me, i always had to use frontends before, but now there is a nifty GUI built in.. AND the sound is perfect