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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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    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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                          mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                          last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:08

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

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                            asianchinaboi @mitu
                            last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:09

                            @mitu no

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

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

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                                mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
                                last edited by 20 Mar 2019, 20:27

                                @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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                                  asianchinaboi @mitu
                                  last edited by 21 Mar 2019, 05:21

                                  @mitu I found it using FTP

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                                    asianchinaboi
                                    last edited by 21 Mar 2019, 05:24

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

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                                      asianchinaboi
                                      last edited by 21 Mar 2019, 05:27

                                      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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                                        asianchinaboi
                                        last edited by 21 Mar 2019, 05:29

                                        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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                                          asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                                          last edited by asianchinaboi 21 Mar 2019, 05:44

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

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