PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?

[sabrecheeky]

Hello! I have retropie on a i5 intel NUC, with ubuntu budgie 19.04, running beautifully including PCSX2. I remember being given the option to 'downgrade' the sdl2 to stock, rather than use the modified retropie version, when I set it up as PCSX2 needed it.

I now have another little NUC that I'm trying to set up the same way, but the PCSX installation fails on trying to install package 'libsdl2-dev:i386'. I've tried different versions of ubuntu budgie, but always the same error. Both NUC's are running 64bit versions of ubuntu budgie.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmirclient-dev:i386:
 libmirclient-dev:amd64 (1.4.0-0ubuntu3) breaks libmirclientcpp-dev and is installed.
  libmirclient-dev:i386 (1.4.0-0ubuntu3) provides libmirclientcpp-dev.

dpkg: error processing package libmirclient-dev:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsdl2-dev:i386:
 libsdl2-dev:i386 depends on libmirclient-dev; however:
  Package libmirclient-dev:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libsdl2-dev:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libmirclient-dev:i386
 libsdl2-dev:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Could not install package(s): libsdl2-dev:i386.

Log ended at: Sat  9 Nov 22:36:48 GMT 2019
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 6 secs

Any ideas?!?

[mitu]

@sabrecheeky said in PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?:

ubuntu budgie

This seems like a problem with the recent changes to the pcsx2 emulator's installation procedure. There's a conflict between some of the 32bit/64bit packages and some of them are not installable with apt.

EDIT: looks like this bug in particular.

[BuZz]

@mitu yeah looks like another packaging bug. (The downgrading was also due to this - ffmpeg libs depending on specific sdl2 version which is wrong imho).

I can add back the downgrading but it's a shame as I hoped that wouldn't be needed now. Will look into it.

[BuZz]

Actually the downgrading was to switch to Ubuntu sdl2 to avoid it. So that won't fix this case. Hmm.

[mitu]

@sabrecheeky Can you update your RetroPie-Setup script and then try again installing pcsx2 ?

[sabrecheeky]

Thanks for the replies!

@mitu I tried again as suggested, but still get an error, this time saying it failed to downgrade.

Log started at: Sun 10 Nov 11:10:04 GMT 2019

RetroPie-Setup version: 4.5.2 (9a09d9b)
System: Ubuntu 19.10 - Linux s***-*******ka 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Installing dependencies for 'pcsx2' : PS2 emulator PCSX2
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chown: cannot access '/opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg': No such file or directory

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Running action 'revert' for 'sdl2' : SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
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Failed to install PS2 emulator PCSX2

Log ended at: Sun 10 Nov 11:10:28 GMT 2019
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 24 secs

Should I try to reinstall the OS in case something has been broken along the way?!?

[mitu]

Remove the libmirclient-dev:i386 and libsdl2-dev:i386 packages manually and try again. You seem to be running on 19.10 now, not on 19.04 as you reported.

[sabrecheeky]

Ah, sorry... My first (successful) machine still runs 19.04 - I have been trying different versions in the new machine to see if it helped. 19.10 just so happened to be where the music stopped!

Thanks loads - it appears to have successfully installed! I will set it up now and see if I can get games running.

Thanks loads again - this is such a great community.

[sabrecheeky]

Managed to get pcsx2 to install fine, but I can't get it to run from inside Retropie/emulationstation... I get this error:

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx2/bin/PCSX2 "/home/scot/RetroPie/roms/ps2/Okami.iso" --windowed
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1006: /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx2/bin/PCSX2: No such file or directory

It runs from the desktop fine... possibly an error in the runcommand.sh?!?

[mitu]

@sabrecheeky said in PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?:

It runs from the desktop fine... possibly an error in the runcommand.sh?!?

No, just a bug in the install script :(. You can open /opt/retropie/configs/pcsx2/emulators.cfg and replace the buggy path with /usr/games/PCSX2 and see if it works.

[sabrecheeky]

All good! Sorted out the .cfg as suggested, and it all works great. Thanks again for all of your help with this!