I've just upgraded my primary Linux box to Linux Mint 15. OK, I'm going to go off on a tangent for a moment. If you'd rather not read it, skip to the next paragraph. I really do like Mint. But the installation of version 15 was not nearly as smooth as it should have been. Getting X to run reliably at the proper resolution on my ASUS/Athlon motherboard with nVidia graphics card was far more difficult than it should have been. That along with several packages not actually working was rather frustrating. I have it all working quite well now, but that's what led me to compiling VICE from source.
I could not get the VICE Commodore emulator supplied by the Mint repository to work. I found several posts from other people having the same difficulties I was experiencing. So, since it wouldn't work and it was an old version, I decided the better option would be to download the source code and compile it myself.
The vanilla Mint 15 installation does not include a compiler or any of the other tools usually required to compile code. We also require several packages of header files as well. So, these must be installed before we can compile VICE. Install the following packages whichever way you prefer (I used the software manager):
- build-essential
- libxaw7-dev
- libreadline-dev
- libasound2-dev
VICE will compile without the libasound2-dev package (the header files for ALSA) but you won't have any sound.
With these packages installed simply follow the directions supplied with VICE to compile.
I should note here that you will not be able to run the VICE emulator without the appropriate ROM images for the computer you wish to emulate. This too is detailed in the documentation included with the source.
In my case I had an existing configuration file in ~/.vice/vicerc that had to be tweaked. Some of the old settings were incompatible with the new version. In theory a fresh install shouldn't encounter this.
In the end I had this:
So I could relive my childhood games like this:
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