Installation av retropie fails on Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64

frossmant

Trying to install retropi in latest Ubuntu version 22.04.

When doing a basic installation using retropie_setup.sh I get two errors at the end.

"Error running 'git checkout master' - returned error 128"
"Error running 'git checkout master' - returned error 128"

looking at the logs i see that some checkout fails.

git clone --recursive --depth 1 --shallow-submodules --branch master "https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig.git" "/home/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/autoconfigs"
Cloning into '/home/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/autoconfigs'...
HEAD is now in branch 'master' at commit 'f8fdb2f45eaa334d282b46ff9f5fd2efc0856b13'
Copying new default configuration to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist
Error running 'git checkout master' - returned 128
Error running 'git checkout master' - returned 128

Any suggestions ?

mitu

Can you post a larger portion of the install log (or maybe the entire log) on pastebin.com ?
The errors reported at the end may come from an earlier installation step. The messages before the errors are from RetroArch's installation - if you run the installation again, do you get the same errors at the end ?

frossmant

@mitu I've downgraded to ubuntu 20.04 and still has some issues so i'l get back to you :)

Those errors are probably due to some earlier installations as you said.

I've found out one major problem in both 22.04 and 20.04 though regarding installing the retropi-manager web ui.

it's dependent on the python-dev package that isn't available any longer in ubuntu.

it should probably try to install python2-dev instead of failing.

frossmant

@mitu seems to be working now after I've reinstalled the latest ubuntu again. must have been some data leftovers in the build directory I guess.

frossmant

@mitu the retropie-manager still doesn't work due to package dependencies so I will install that manually from GitHub.

should probably be looked into though.

mitu

@frossmant said in Installation av retropie fails on Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64:

should probably be looked into though.

Sadly, RetroPie web manager is an orphaned project. It was added (from a snapshot) to the RetroPie's list of repository when the original author deleted their Github account and the project itself, just so the few users that were using it to be able to continue using it. We may be able to fix the dependencies for now, but in the future this might not be an option.

I see that someone started a fork to improve it, but migration to Python3 is still a TODO item on their list.

frossmant

@mitu yeah maybe it's not worth looking into that project. I see that I get issues with python right now :)

If the original project is abandon it might be better to start something new perhaps.