On 2020-04-27 at 10:06, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > So I want to play a couple of classic SNES (super nintendo entertainment > system?) games via the app called zsnes, but I can't install it. > > kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt install zsnes > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package zsnes is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'zsnes' has no installation candidate > > Any ideas? $ apt-cache policy zsnes | grep zsnes zsnes:i386: zsnes is written partly in 32-bit assembler, so it isn't available from the amd64 versions of the Debian package repos. You need to add the 32-bit ones as an available option in order to get access to 32-bit-only packages. Try $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 $ sudo apt-get update and then try the install again. I suspect it'll succeed this time. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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