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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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    • EfriimE
      Efriim @asianchinaboi
      last edited by Efriim

      @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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      • asianchinaboiA
        asianchinaboi
        last edited by

        Gotta go to sleep I will do that tomorrow

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by mitu

          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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          • asianchinaboiA
            asianchinaboi @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu ok

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            • asianchinaboiA
              asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
              last edited by

              @asianchinaboi It just says command not found

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                last edited by

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

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                • asianchinaboiA
                  asianchinaboi @mitu
                  last edited by

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

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                    last edited by

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

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                    • asianchinaboiA
                      asianchinaboi
                      last edited by

                      Yes I am typing it through the retropie command prompt

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                        last edited by

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

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                        • asianchinaboiA
                          asianchinaboi @mitu
                          last edited by

                          @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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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                            last edited by

                            @asianchinaboi Did you remove the RetroPie-Setup folder or uninstalled RetroPie ?

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                            • asianchinaboiA
                              asianchinaboi @mitu
                              last edited by

                              @mitu no

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                              • asianchinaboiA
                                asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                                last edited by

                                @asianchinaboi maybe you could give me a link to install the retropie_packages.sh ?

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                                  last edited by

                                  @asianchinaboi said in i get this error when i try to boot up emulationstation please help:

                                  retropie_packages.sh

                                  The retropie_packages.sh should be in your $HOME/RetroPie-Setup folder, it's part of the RetroPie install. How did you install RetroPie - what image did you use ?

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                                  • asianchinaboiA
                                    asianchinaboi @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    @mitu I found it using FTP

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                                    • asianchinaboiA
                                      asianchinaboi
                                      last edited by

                                      Oh wait I got it working the problem was that I wasn’t using capitals lol

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                                      • asianchinaboiA
                                        asianchinaboi
                                        last edited by

                                        ITS WORKING YAY thanks so much guys I worried that I would have to reinstall the whole thing I love this community

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                                        • asianchinaboiA
                                          asianchinaboi
                                          last edited by

                                          Everything very glitchy like the icons are missing and it keeps saying glerror lol but anyways I will just install everything again in retropie

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                                          • asianchinaboiA
                                            asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                                            last edited by asianchinaboi

                                            @asianchinaboi just fixed that by adjusting the memory to the gpu from 60mb to 256mb

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