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S3TC (sometimes called DXTn or DXTC) is a proprietary image compression algorithm. This was patented (US Patent 5,956,431) and thus Mesa cannot use it directly nor external library can enter Debian archive. If you want to have libtxc-dxtn installed you have to do it yourself.
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ZSNES is a GPL licensed emulator of the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game systems. Large part of ZSNES is written in assembly. Fortunately it works under GNU/Linux. Debian has a zsnes package, but unfortunately only for i386. Binary package is not available for AMD64. So? Lets build one!
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