How do I get rid of emulationstation-dev?
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Vastly against my better judgement, I just installed emulationstation-dev from the Experimental menu in an attempt to fix the "Displaying game images in the wrong aspect ratio" problem:
But instead it's completely killed my install. It now just boots to the $ prompt and I can't get into the Setup menu to remove it (all I can run is raspi-config, which is no help). What do I do?
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Oh God that was horrendous. Turned out I'd forgotten to capitalise the P in
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
but even when I got in and removed the dev version it didn't default back to normal EmulationStation, so after another heart attack I managed to reinstall the working one from Core Packages.
Just never, ever mess with the core packages, folks. Last time ever.
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@jimmyfromthebay
' Last time ever'
š you know you want to
Let's just say i'm very fond of my backup -
1: Each version will replace the other when you install it. No need to remove the old one first. In fact, I wonder if that's why it broke in the first place? Maybe the
-devversion expected some configs or something to carry over from the main install, but couldn't find them because they were deleted when (if) you removed the main one before installing-dev? I don't know if that's what would happen but just a thought.2: @jimmyfromthebay said
Just never, ever mess with the core packages, folks. Last time ever.
Well, not without a backup plan, anyway.
But I mean, even so, you were ultimately able to put it back the way it was fairly easily, yeah? So in the end...no harm no foul, eh?
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@sleve_mcdichael said in How do I get rid of emulationstation-dev?:
1: Each version will replace the other when you install it. No need to remove the old one first. In fact, I wonder if that's why it broke in the first place? Maybe the
-devversion expected some configs or something to carry over from the main install, but couldn't find them because they were deleted when (if) you removed the main one before installing-dev?I didn't remove the main one first, had no idea you were meant to. Normally things just upgrade over the top.
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@jimmyfromthebay said in How do I get rid of emulationstation-dev?:
I didn't remove the main one first, had no idea you were meant to. Normally things just upgrade over the top.
Oh no I didn't mean you're meant to (you're not), I just thought you might have done, since you said you did remove the
-devversion before putting back the original (which you also didn't need to do, you could have just reinstalled the original one directly and it would, as you say, upgrade over the top), I thought you might have removed the original too before putting in-devin the first place. If not, disregard that part.But yeah, backups are good. I had done something that was causing ES to crash, once in a while, unpredictably, at launch. So I burned a fresh image, hopped on my WiFi, restored my backed-up roms and config files, and I was back in action.
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@sleve_mcdichael said in How do I get rid of emulationstation-dev?:
But yeah, backups are good. I had done something that was causing ES to crash, once in a while, unpredictably, at launch. So I burned a fresh image, hopped on my WiFi, restored my backed-up roms and config files, and I was back in action.
Obv I have backups, but restoring from a backup onto a 256GB SD card takes hours and hours and hours and I try to avoid it wherever possible...
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