Older Retropie git download for PC

[Neo-Rio]

I've got an old 32-bit PC running 16.04 ubuntu, but the latest Retropie 4.6 doesn't work on it due to changes made to accommodate 18.04 and 20.04
(libpython-dev not being recognized as a package being the main culprit on 16.04 now). I don't want to upgrade to 18.04 because it runs even slower on this old hardware.

Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to use git to clone a get a previous release? Like 4.5 or 4.4 for example.

Is there a git command for that?

Thanks.

[mitu]

You could checkout an older release by using a tagged commit (like 4.4), but there's no guarantee that installation will work for the included emulators.

You should try installing an Ubuntu flavor targeted for older hardware, like Xubuntu or Lubuntu and use the current RetroPie version.

[Neo-Rio]

Do you know the git clone command to do just that?
I'm not sure how to do it.

[mitu]

@Neo-Rio said in Older Retropie git download for PC:

I'm not sure how to do it.

To clone the 4.4 release, you'd have to specify the branch when doing the manual install.

git clone --branch 4.4 https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup

I strongly recommend to explore first the other options I've mentioned, there's no guarantee that the installation would work.

[Neo-Rio]

I'm trying ubuntu 16.04 on 32-bit hardware.
4.5.1 didn't work, so trying 4.4 now just to see if it works.

[Neo-Rio]

So with 4.4, most core and main packages installed, but there were a few that wouldn't. lr-stella, lr-pcsx-rearmed failed to build.

So in short - trying this is a mixed bag. Some things will build. Some things won't.
At least the raspberry pi image is a stable platform, but doing PC builds will always be a forever-forward moving target