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i get this error when i try to boot up emulationstation and now it’s all weird and some of the font is missing

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    asianchinaboi
    last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 09:45

    Yeah I tried to do that but it still had the same error

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      Efriim @Efriim
      last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 09:48

      @Efriim
      I uninstalled libsdl2-dev and emulationstation still worked.
      However reinstalling libsdl2 meets broken dependencies, I guess I'll figure that out later.

      Are you certain you are trying to enter emulationstation after exiting completely from the desktop environment?

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        asianchinaboi @Efriim
        last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:01

        @Efriim yes I am certain

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          Efriim @asianchinaboi
          last edited by Efriim 20 Mar 2019, 10:08

          @asianchinaboi
          I'm reading through the half-life install, but in the meantime you could try
          sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
          And update. It will update all the emulators too, so hopefully nothing will break and it will take a while.
          Or you can go into core packages and update just emulationstation.

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            asianchinaboi @Efriim
            last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:09

            @Efriim ok

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              asianchinaboi @Efriim
              last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:11

              @Efriim it just says command not found

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                Efriim @asianchinaboi
                last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:13

                @asianchinaboi
                I probably mistyped it. Oh well forget the whole update thing.
                Inside /boot/config.txt you added some lines for the framebuffer depth and alpha pass try hashing those out and rebooting.

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                  asianchinaboi @Efriim
                  last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:17

                  @Efriim what do you mean by hashing it out?

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                    asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                    last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 10:20

                    @asianchinaboi oh wait I just figured how to hash it out
                    I did it and unfortunately it didn’t work it just made the screen smaller so I just put the hash’s back in the config file

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                      Efriim @asianchinaboi
                      last edited by Efriim 20 Mar 2019, 11:00

                      @asianchinaboi
                      Okay, then lets try to update emulationstation using retropie_setup.sh

                      try using the "Tab" key for command line completion
                      sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

                      from there go to Manage packages >> Core packages >> Emulationstation >> Update from binary.

                      I'm thinking this will automatically install the sdl libraries if they are missing aswell.

                      Whenever it is that that doesn't work. It might be something else in your config.txt which is not giving your sdl a proper display. It could be helpful to use ssh and copy the text from config.txt into this thread using the ctrl+c ctrl+v combos.

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                        asianchinaboi
                        last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 11:43

                        Gotta go to sleep I will do that tomorrow

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                          mitu Global Moderator
                          last edited by mitu 20 Mar 2019, 17:22

                          You problem is most likely caused by uninstalling libsdl2instead of libsdl2-dev. Re-installing the package through apt would not solve it, since RetroPie uses its own version, with OpenGL ES support. The version distributed by Raspbian runs needs an X.org (desktop) environment to run.

                          To re-install the RetroPie SDL2 version, run:

                          sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sdl2 install_bin
                          

                          Try again starting Emulationstation and see if it works.

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                            asianchinaboi @mitu
                            last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 19:46

                            @mitu ok

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                              asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                              last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 19:52

                              @asianchinaboi It just says command not found

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                                mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                                last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 19:54

                                @asianchinaboi Which command is marked as not found ? Make sure you type the command as is.

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                                  asianchinaboi @mitu
                                  last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 19:57

                                  @mitu sudo: $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sdl2 install_bin command not found

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                                    mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                                    last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 19:59

                                    @asianchinaboi Are you typing this on your RetroPie's command line prompt ?

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                                      asianchinaboi
                                      last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:01

                                      Yes I am typing it through the retropie command prompt

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                                        mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                                        last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:04

                                        @asianchinaboi I literally typed the same command and it worked. Make sure you're not mis-typing anything

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                                          asianchinaboi @mitu
                                          last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:07

                                          @mitu yeah I tried typing it again 5 times making sure I didn’t did anything wrong and I still wouldn’t work

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