Mame: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

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This page serves as the home page of the Mame package in Debian.


Status of the Package

Right now the package is waiting the ftp master approval in the NEW queue

Getting the packaging Code

The development of the package is done on alioth, inside the pkg-games group. To participate in the packaging work, create an account on alioth, and present yourself on the debian-devel-game mailinst list ( see Games/VCS )

Building a package

Check out the code

Build a package

# get source code
cd mame
debian/rules get-orig-source

# get mame version
MAME_VERSION=$(dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -ne 's/^Version: \(.*\)-.*/\1/p')
cd ..

# untar and build
ln -s  mame mame-${MAME_VERSION}
tar xjf mame_${MAME_VERSION}.orig.tar.bz2
cd mame-${MAME_VERSION}
dpkg-buildpackage

TODO

Feel free to pick up any of these, just send a mail to mamedeb at googlegroups well it's a dot com, when you start working on something

done

Current status is:  manu@leonard:~$ ldd /usr/games/mame | wc -l 59  for mame-tools jumped down from 59 to 22