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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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    • asianchinaboiA
      asianchinaboi
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      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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                                          • asianchinaboiA
                                            asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                                            last edited by

                                            @asianchinaboi now for it Looks like this A2F629EB-A9CB-4766-A874-B61DF8A0F00D.jpeg

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