QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. This is a binary release, repacked for Slackware's package management system. It seems the /usr/bin/qemu is hard-coded to look for some files in /usr/local/share - there are at least two ways to work around this after the package is installed: 1. cd /usr/local/share ; ln -s /usr/share/qemu qemu 2. replace -s /usr/local/ /usr/./././ /usr/bin/qemu The first method is the safest, but either should work relatively well.