Trying to install qemu on a HD Install

Forum: Apt-get
Topic: Trying to install qemu on a HD Install
started by: MannyL

Posted by MannyL on Dec. 13 2006,01:20

I have a HD install and need to install QMEU into it but it keeps failing. Here is what I get. I'm doing this by ssh'ing into the DSL Linux system

root@1[root]# apt-get install qemu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package qemu has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package qemu has no installation candidate

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 13 2006,05:43

download dsl-embedded.zip
or download qemu manually from other sources
or possibly change your apt repos.

Posted by MannyL on Dec. 14 2006,00:54

I downloaded the debian package qemu_0.6.1+20050407-1_i386.deb

when I tried to install it doing dpkg -i it failed

root@box:/etc/apt# dpkg -i qemu_0.6.1+20050407-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 10680 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace qemu 0.6.1+20050407-1 (using qemu_0.6.1+20050407-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement qemu ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qemu:
qemu depends on libsdl1.2debian (>> 1.2.7+1.2.8); however:
Package libsdl1.2debian is not installed.
qemu depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1); however:
Version of zlib1g on system is 1:1.1.4-14.
qemu depends on vgabios (>= 0.4c+20041014-1); however:
Package vgabios is not installed.
qemu depends on bochsbios (>= 2.1.1+20041109-3); however:
Package bochsbios is not installed.
dpkg: error processing qemu (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
qemu
root@box:/etc/apt#

What am I doing wrong?

Posted by roberts on Dec. 14 2006,01:06

Why use such an old version of Qemu?
Qemu v0.8.2 binary for linux is a simple tarball avaiable from their < site >

Posted by MannyL on Dec. 14 2006,01:37

Well I was trying to install a .deb but that binary worked for me. How I have to figure out how to do my frankenstien build