SDL Drivers - Ubu 18.04

ahardy

How are you doing? Trying to install retropie on a single board computer I have laying around but getting 404 errors downloading your SDL drivers. Looking for the source or details on how to resolve, thank you in advance!

STDOUT

sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sdl2 install_bin

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Installing 'sdl2' : SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
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--2020-08-30 17:30:14--  https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/bionic/x86/libsdl2-dev_2.0.10+5_armhf.deb
Resolving files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)... 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1, 93.93.129.253
Connecting to files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)|2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-08-30 17:30:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

--2020-08-30 17:30:15--  https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/bionic/x86/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.10+5_armhf.deb
Resolving files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)... 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1, 93.93.129.253
Connecting to files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)|2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-08-30 17:30:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.10+5_amd64.deb': No such file or directory
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
rm: cannot remove './*.deb': No such file or directory
Unable to install binary for sdl2
Errors:
Unable to install binary for sdl2

Video Card

lshw -class display
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 11
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:90 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f080(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff

General Details

Ubuntu 18.04.5
Install guide, https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18810/retropie-installation-on-ubuntu-server-x64-18-04-1

Emulationstation

Aug 30 17:37:00 lvl0:   Error initializing SDL!
        No available video device
Aug 30 17:37:00 lvl0:   Renderer failed to initialize!
Aug 30 17:37:00 lvl0:   Window failed to initialize!

mitu

There are no pre-built binaries for x86/x86-64, all installations are done via source installs - that's why the command you posted throws an error.
I don't know where you found that SDL2 installation command, but you should follow the official installation docs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/ - and start with a basic installation.

ahardy

@mitu Okay done, issue continues

mitu

Can you post the installation log file - on pastebin.com ?

ahardy

@mitu Sure, not sure if this is the file. Found from $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs . Should note I have downloaded the SDL tar ball aswell and compiled that. Still does not work.

EDIT: file is too big for pastebin and I am not paying for dropbox

https://we.tl/t-mHFbCvRrxv

mitu

I don't see the errors in the log file - installation seems to have worked fine.

ahardy

@mitu alright, so how do I tackle the issue of emulationstation not loading?

mitu

Are you running EmulationStation from the terminal or from the desktop environment ? Can you post the output of glxinfo ?

ahardy

@mitu there is no gui install. I assume I need to install one?

glxinfo
Error: unable to open display

mitu

@ahardy said in SDL Drivers - Ubu 18.04:

@mitu there is no gui install. I assume I need to install one?

You need a desktop environment to run EmulationStation (and RetroPie) on a PC installation. I think it's described in the topic you linked and it's also part of the docs page - where it instructs you to install the desktop version of Ubuntu.

ahardy

@mitu Awesome thank you, apologies for that oversight. Was able to get it going. You have a good weekend!