Install MAME emulator in Debian / Ubuntu

MAME is an emulator for those games, at least people my age-old used to play on the famous corner arcades.And many still remember those long hours of fun in front of the arcade machines with games like Metal Slug , Double Dragon or Super Sideckicks .

To my pleasant surprise, the blog of A Bionformatiquillo I learned that there is a version of theMAME emulator for GNU / Linux , or at least for Debian and distros based on it like Ubuntu or LinuxMint. To install it, just follow these steps:

Open a terminal (console) and type the following to install the emulator and all the necessary files:

$ Sudo aptitude install xmame-sdl xmame-common

After installing the MAME emulator, we download a frontend to run it in GUI by typing:

$ Wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gxmame/gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb

Once downloaded the frontend, just unpack it and install it with the command:

$ Sudo dpkg-i-1_i386.deb gxmame_0.35beta2

Extract files. Rar in Debian and Ubuntu

By default, the distributions Debian and Ubuntu (Debian based precisely on) can handle compressed files with the. tar. gz,. bz2. zip and some other less common. The problem comes when we need to use files with the. Rar format, created exclusively for the famous compressor WinRar.

Not being a free format, managing files such default is not included in our Debian / Ubuntu .However, we can add this functionality to our distribution with only a few steps that will allow us to compress (zip) and uncompress (unrar) files with the aforementioned format.

First of all, we must ensure that our repository list (/ etc / apt / sources.list) we added non-free repositories of our distribution. For Ubuntu users this is not necessary, since these repositories are added by default.

Now open a terminal and proceed to install rar and unrar with the following command:

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

Installation begins and within seconds we will have support for compressing and decompressing files. Rar in our distribution, either graphically (with the archive manager) or directly from the terminal.

To use it from the terminal, you also need to know some fairly simple commands that follow:

To unzip a file. Rar, from the console to place at the folder containing the file and type:

unrar x nombredelarchivo.rar

Where "nombredelarchivo.rar" is the name of the file to decompress. By contrast, if you only want to see the contents of the file, but without decompression, we use the command:

unrar one nombredelarchivo.rar

It's that simple. Any questions, clarification and / or suggestions, I would appreciate a comment on the post.