For build and install GSnes9x you'd only need to: $ gzip -cd GSnes9x-3.0.tar.gz | tar xfv - $ cd GSnes9x-3.0/ $ ./configure $ make $ make install GSnes9x has support for Esound by default, but if you don't want it, you can: ./configure --without-esd and the esd related functions will be skipped. RPMs for the i386 architecture and SRPMs can be found in: http://abulafia.fciencias.unam.mx/~canek/gsnes9x/download.html