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    Retro Pie Setup Won't Launch

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    • BuZzB
      BuZz administrators @aschwan
      last edited by BuZz

      @aschwan please try

      cd ~/RetroPie-Setup
      git reset --hard
      sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
      

      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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      • aschwanA
        aschwan @BuZz
        last edited by

        @BuZz

        This worked! Thank you!!
        I have been working on this for hours. phew!

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        • S
          sinfolmatt
          last edited by sinfolmatt

          Edit: moving this to it's own thread because the title is different than my problem.

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          • MydriazeM
            Mydriaze
            last edited by

            Same problem here when I type: "sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh" (without " of course) then, I got an error message: "command not found".

            I switch the default keyboard layout and regional language to French keyboard. Is the problem can be related?

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            • jonnykeshJ
              jonnykesh @Mydriaze
              last edited by

              @mydriaze It's not related to your keyboard locale setting. Check to see if the retropie_setup.sh script is actually there. Also navigate to the setup directory with cd /home/pi/Retropie-Setupand then try and launch from there sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
              Does it launch from the RetroPie configuration menu in ES?

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              • MydriazeM
                Mydriaze
                last edited by

                Thanks for your answer. Let's be honest. I was not sure someoner will ever reply to an old thread. I did a fresh install thius afternoon. I will try again to see if the problem persist. If yes, I will - of course - let you know.

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                • MydriazeM
                  Mydriaze
                  last edited by

                  @mydriaze said in Retro Pie Setup Won't Launch:

                  "sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh"

                  UPDATE: it was a typo: I wrote "sudo ~/Retropie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh" instead of "sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh".

                  Remember kids, always check case/capital when you type something!

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                  • jonnykeshJ
                    jonnykesh @Mydriaze
                    last edited by

                    @mydriaze Ha! Always remember: Linux is case sensitive.

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                    • SanoS
                      Sano
                      last edited by

                      Just overuse bash completion to avoid this kind of issues.
                      Tab key FTW :)

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                      • XxDarkOverlordxXX
                        XxDarkOverlordxX
                        last edited by XxDarkOverlordxX

                        Just a quick update to anyone needing to clear retropie-setup script for updating

                        //to clean update script

                        cd RetroPie-Setup

                        cd origin/master

                        git pull

                        git clean -d -f

                        git reset —hard origin/master

                        // should be cleaned up now and script should update on next check

                        BOOM!!!!!!!

                        sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
                        

                        if it doesn't work for some reason

                        login:pi
                        password:raspberry

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                        • XxDarkOverlordxXX
                          XxDarkOverlordxX @XxDarkOverlordxX
                          last edited by XxDarkOverlordxX

                          @XxDarkOverlordxX

                          // to reset HEAD and put back
                          cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup
                          Git checkout master

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator @XxDarkOverlordxX
                            last edited by

                            @XxDarkOverlordxX You're replying to a 2 years old topic and your git examples are not quite correct. Is there a point to this ? @BuZz provided the right answer back in the day, that's all you need to do in order to reset your local RetroPie-Setup copy.

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                            • C
                              CargoRunner @BuZz
                              last edited by

                              @buzz Thanks so much for this !!!!!! I am not sure what happened with last update a few months ago but I had the exact same problem when I tried to to get the latest update. None of the retropie menu options worked and the command like setup did nothing. Your command has certainly helped a huge amount. Now I am just getting "Temporary failure resolving 'raspbian.raspberrypi.org'" errors and "error cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/4.7': unable to resolve reference. But great progress, thank you

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