x64 does not start commodore 64 emulator

[xteejx]

Binary package hint: vice

Running x64 does not work, and outputs the following:

$ x64
*** VICE Version 2.1 ***

Welcome to x64, the free portable C64 Emulator.

Current VICE team members:
A. Boose, D. Lem, T. Biczo, A. Dehmel, T. Bretz, A. Matthies,
M. Pottendorfer, M. Brenner, S. Trikaliotis, M. van den Heuvel,
C. Vogelgsang, F. Gennari, M. Kiesel, H. Nuotio, D. Kahlin.

This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
See the "About VICE" command for more info.

XRandR: XRandR reports current display: 1280x800@60
C64MEM: Error - Couldn't load kernal ROM `kernal'.
Machine initialization failed.

Exiting...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: vice 2.1.dfsg-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 2 20:34:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vice

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

As the package description says:

"This package does not contain the various ROM images needed to
 actually use the emulators; they are available separately from other
 locations (see the README.ROMs file). A corporation in the
 Netherlands called Tulip holds the copyrights to the ROM images, and
 redistribution is not permitted, but VICE itself is unencumbered."

You'll find README.ROMs in /usr/share/doc/vice/.

While it's true that x64 won't work out of the box, the instructions for making it work are provided. For making it work out of the box there's probably very little that can be done in Ubuntu. I'm therefore going to mark this bug invalid.

[Renzo Filini (renzo-filini)]

Compiling from source on x64 the ROMs are installed in /usr/lib64/vice. It works creating a symbolic link /usr/lib/vice that points to /usr/lib64/vice:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/vice /usr/lib/vice

[Geoffroy Ménard (geoffmen)]

I followed the instructions in readme and it still provides the same output.

[Geoffroy Ménard (geoffmen)]

Solved: had to modify the permissions to allowed newly copied files to be readable by user