Executable path on Ubuntu 18.04

[hallwayorchard]

Hi All,

I am in the process of using AM for a frontend for MAME 0.209 on Ubuntu 18.04.

I *think* I am well along in the process; AM has generated the list of roms, however I cannot seem to launch roms from AM.  I have tested and can launch them from MAME.

Here is how I've got the emulator set up in AM:

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Executable: /snap/mame/1122/mame
Command Arguments: "[romfilename]"

I'm assuming I'm messing something up in these two fields.  Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

[Favdeacon]

The path /snap/mame/1122/mame seems a little strange. Is that really the path to your mame executable?

The leading "/" means that "snap" is in your system's root directory, which I doubt. If "snap" is in your home directory, this should work:

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Executable: $HOME/snap/mame/1122/mame

$HOME is an environmental variable that contains the path to the current user's home directory.

For comparison, here's the resp. part of my $HOME/.attract/emulators/mame.cfg:

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executable           $HOME/bin/mame64
args                 -video bgfx [name]
workdir              $HOME/mame
rompath              $HOME/mame/roms
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade

However, I'm still using Attract Mode 2.2.1-50, and I don't know if it's configuration differs from the current version.

[hallwayorchard]

Thanks for the reply... yes, Snap is in my root.  I went against convention and installed MAME via the new(ish) Snappy deployment mechanism.  That is where everything ends up.

[hallwayorchard]

UPDATE:

Looks like I was struggling for nothing. Since MAME is executable from any location from the command line, all I needed was to delete any path reference.

I changed my settings to:

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Executable:   mame
And now everything seems to be working!

[Favdeacon]

Thanks for sharing your solution. I have no experience with snap installations.

It's still strange why AM didn't find the executable with the path, since it does so in my case. The path was 100% correct?