Is it possible to do binary install over official Raspi OS?

[RedMarsBlueMoon]

Hello!

I really need to use Bullseye but I don't have the time to try and muddle through the current build -athlon.

Would it be possible to just copy select parts from a RetroPie imaged sd card?

I guess yes but is it feasible? Are there any instructions for doing that anywhere?

Cheers

[RedMarsBlueMoon]

Hi I tried again two days ago and the standard term-gui launched 'basic-install' ran through the whole build without errors this time and emulation station started up when I typed it. Great!

But now I'm trying to work through my whole Arcade setup and the scripts I had made to customize the use.

One thing I used was 'xdotool' but something, quite possibly the RetroPie install, has messed with the apt environment so now I can't 'sudo apt install xdotool'. It says,

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ffmpeg : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 libavdevice58 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 libfluidsynth2 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 libmikmod3 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12+dfsg1) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 libsdl2-gfx-1.0-0 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12+dfsg1) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
 xdotool : Depends: libxdo3 (>= 1:3.20150503.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I tried running the suggested command but it didn't help.
Does anyone have any suggestions how this apt bind can be resolved?

Cheers

[mitu]

@redmarsbluemoon said in Is it possible to do binary install over official Raspi OS?:

Does anyone have any suggestions how this apt bind can be resolved?

RetroPie installs it's own libsdl2 on the Pi, which is too old for Bullseye. Right now, RetroPie is not fully compatible with the new RasPI OS release, so I'd advise on still using Buster if you wish to not have issues.

[RedMarsBlueMoon]

@mitu

I'm totally happy to do some extra installing/building if that would help.
If I build SDL2 from source repo, would I be able to fix this up without too much editing of cmake files etc?
(i do need to use Bullseye unfortunately)

EDIT:
if I did this for the SDL2 build?

./configure --enable-video-kmsdrm --enable-video-opengles