Retropie Ubuntu install fail

dnbarnes1983

I’ve installed retropie on Ubuntu many many times.... this last couple of days it fails every time with numerous errors..... always unsuccessful install of emulationstation due to not finding a folder or something. Can’t remember exactly off the top of my head

jonnykesh

@dnbarnes1983 could you try being a bit more vague?
If you actually want people to help you provide some relevant information.

yaazzz

We need additional informations :

what platform do you have

Did you tried without multiprocessors compilation :

sudo MAKEFLAGS="-j1" ./retropie_setup.sh

mitu

@dnbarnes1983 Which Ubuntu version/release ? Please post the exact error you get - better yet upload the error log to pastebin.com if it's too large.

dnbarnes1983

@mitu Could not successfully build sdl2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
(/home/benjamin/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/arcade/sdl2/libsdl2-de
v_2.0.7+2_amd64.deb not found)

Is the first error that comes up. I’m using Ubuntu 16.0.4 Lts

mitu

@dnbarnes1983 There should be a log file under /home/benjamin/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/ with more details about the compilation error. Try to upload it to pastebin.com and post here the link.

dnbarnes1983

@mitu thanks for the advice... I’m just trying a clean install and will get back to you. Thanks for the help

dnbarnes1983

@mitu the error log is too large for pastebin.com.

the errors are
Could not successfully build sdl2 - SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
(/home/arcade/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/sdl2/libsdl2-dev_2.0.7+2_amd64.deb not found)

Could not successfully build retroarch - RetroArch - frontend to the libretro cores required by all emulators lr-* emulators
(/home/arcade/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/retroarch not found)

Could not successfully build sdl2 - SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
(/home/arcade/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/sdl2/libsdl2-dev_2.0.7+2_amd64.deb not found)

Could not successfully build emulationstation - EmulationStation - frontend used by retropie for launching emulators
(/home/arcade/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/emulationstation not found)

Could not successfully build sdl2 - SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
(/home/arcade/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/sdl2/libsdl2-dev_2.0.7+2_amd64.deb not found)

Could not successfully build mupen64plus - N64 emulator MUPEN64Plus (mupen64plus-ui-console/projects/unix/mupen64plus not found)

mitu

@dnbarnes1983 Well, you're not the only one and it seems there's an error building SDL2, which cascades to other packages (Emulationstation, RetroArch, Mupen). The actual build log for the SDL package would be useful, let's see if I can reproduce the problem.

mitu

@dnbarnes1983 .Run this:

sudo apt-get install libgles2-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev

Then try again a basic install from the RetroPie-setup menu.

dnbarnes1983

@mitu I’m out at the minute but will try it when I get back home... thanks

sam

im currently trying this with my problem aswell ill let you know how it goes

BuZz

I made some changes last night regarding dependencies and didn't complete but pushed to the sdl repo before it was ready. You can sudo apt-get install libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev to resolve it if I don't fix it first.

dnbarnes1983

@buzz thank you so much...... this has worked...... will just a normal download and install work now as I’ve a couple of PCs to do for the kids bedrooms...

Thanks so much