[Coco] Mess Question

[Manny]

tim lindner wrote:
> Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
> 
>> Richard wrote:
>>> I want to install Mess on my Linux OS. I went to the site, but it seems
>>> that things have changed. Also My install is Ubuntu which is Debian
>>> based and all the MESS file I have encountered seemed to be RPMs. It
>>> would really nice if I could emulate a CoCo on my Linux Box. I am truly
>>> ignorant about this. TIA
>> What version of Ubuntu are you running?
>>
>> xmess and it's other packages are in the 'multiverse' repository:
> 
> xmess stopped being updated about a year ago.
> 
> SDLMESS is currently the most popular Unix MESS project still being
> updated.

I know, but if I do an 'apt-cache search sdlmess', I get nothin'. What's 
the latest *nix version? I think I'm running .106, which I believe is 
the latest in the Ubuntu repositories.

There is a binary named 'xmess.SDL', but I don't know if that's the same 
thing or not.

-M.