Can't download themes or emulators error 'tar -xv -z -C

[edgarsv]

Some months ago I got my retro pie 4.3 on my raspberry pi zero. A while ago I bought an adapter (Ethernet to usb). (I checked adapter it works) Firstly I did scraping. It worked. then I tried to download themes there was an error. then I tried to download some emulators but then the error was shown:
Error running 'tar -xv -C
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/fuse
--strip-components 1' - returned 2

then something new appeared:
please see
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/logs/rps_2017-07-08_123928 . log. g
z for more in depth information regarding the errors .

and:
fuse patch cursor .diff failed to apply

• Also when script was going I catched a line * enable to conect to github.com*
• Also (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/fuse) <--- i don't know what is that or where to find it or whrite it, Could you explain?
• Also I havent done networking conection with my pc. (I don't know what to do..) I put my roms with usb flash drive.

What should I do? I'm kinda new to retropie so I now a little... For the problem's soloution should i update retropie to version 4.4? Is that the issue?
Please help!!!

[mitu]

It looks like you don't have an internet connection - or a stable connection - from your PI system and this is causing your problems. Check if your internet connection is working correctly before attempting to update or download additional emulators.

[edgarsv]

@mitu Before connecting the adapter I checked it with my pc first (and it worked. And the scraper works fine. Does the old retropie version (4.3) affects something?
And does this line /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/fuse is for computer networking?

[mitu]

@edgarsv said in Can't download themes or emulators error 'tar -xv -z -C:

And does this line /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/fuse is for computer networking?

No, this is a folder where the RetroPie script tries to download the emulator's sources in order to build and install it, but obviously fails.
Just because the adapter works from the PC, doesn't mean it works correctly in RetroPie. If you use the RetroPie system and choose Show IP address, what's the output ?

[edgarsv]

here is the image of ip address

[mitu]

@edgarsv You seem to have an internal (LAN) IP on the adapter, so the adapter seems to work. If you try to update the RetroPie script, does it work ?

[edgarsv]

No it doesn't I think... This is what it shows ...!

[mitu]

@edgarsv It looks like either your date/time is off (which kind of is, based on your first screenshot) or your installation is too old and it's missing the necessary CA info to validate the HTTPS connection's certificate to github.com.

Try updating the ca-certificates package and make sure your date and time are correct. Run this from the command line or from an SSH session.

# update ca-certificates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install ca-certificates
 
# Check the date/time
date

[edgarsv]

Here is how it worked...

The only part I understood was that the date is wrong.

[mitu]

Try setting the date from the internet

sudo systemctl stop ntp
sudo ntpdate 2.debian.pool.ntp.org
 
# Check the date again
date

[edgarsv]

After first command nothing happened but after the 2nd command it said command not found

[edgarsv]

@edgarsv

[mitu]

@edgarsv Try installing the ntpdate command with

sudo apt-get -y install ntpdate

and then retry to set the date.

[edgarsv]

I did what you told but the date didn't change saying 8 Jul 15:48:38 ntpdate[1531]: no server suitable for synchronization found

[mitu]

@edgarsv Try with the well known NIST time server:

sudo ntpdate time.nist.gov

[edgarsv]

That didn't work either... Is there a way to set by my self? What could the reason for it not founding the servers?

[mitu]

@edgarsv You can set the date with timedatectl - see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time#Set_system_clock. But I suspect the problem is that your internet connection is not working correctly, RetroPie would have set the time and date automatically from the internet.

[BuZz]

Probably easiest to just start with a 4.4 image - Jessie support will be dropped by us in the future anyway.

[edgarsv]

So... What should I do?

[edgarsv]

Should I change retropie's version to 4.4? or try to replase raspberry pi zero to raspberry pi 3?