Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level

Jiryn

The manual installation is broken, or hit a weird roadblock

I am at
Download the latest RetroPie setup script with

cd
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git

It has me log into github, but has an authentication failure

Remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021

So, what do I do?

mitu

This may be an issue with your (local) account and Github, I don't get this error on a simple Linux account (not logged in to Github).
Do you have some Github/Git configuration set-up, from your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc that may be triggering this message ?

Try with

git clone --no-config --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git

and see if the cloning works.

Jiryn

@mitu said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

This may be an issue with your (local) account and Github, I don't get this error on a simple Linux account (not logged in to Github).
Do you have some Github/Git configuration set-up, from your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc that may be triggering this message ?

Try with
git clone --no-config --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
and see if the cloning works.

I have no clue what you're talking about.
I've just been following the instructions you have listed here

I first installed Debian BookWorm to my SSD

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install git lsb-release

cd
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git

Been stuck since, and I've not done anything beyond these commands.

mitu

Sorry, but I can't reproduce the problem here. Cloning works with or without a Github account:


pi@retropie:~/src$ git --version
git version 2.43.0

pi@retropie:~/src$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
Cloning into 'RetroPie-Setup'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 465, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (465/465), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (400/400), done.
remote: Total 465 (delta 76), reused 203 (delta 41), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (465/465), 1.83 MiB | 6.45 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (76/76), done.

Can you run git with tracing on and post the output:

GIT_TRACE=1 git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git

Jiryn

@mitu
I am curious as to what happened.
Also how do I turn off password login?

Also, thank you!

mitu

@Jiryn said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

I am curious as to what happened.

Not sure what happened means here - on the Gihub side nothing happened and there's nothing that has been modified on the RetroPie repository (and I'm not sure there is something that can be modified to disallow access). What are you referring to .. ?

Also how do I turn off password login?

Follow the documentation page on Github, it's their configuration that needs to be followed. I think that if you have an account and wish to use it from CLI/app you need to add a SSH key to your account and use git instead of https for repositories where you want to have write access, but that is already explained in the Github documentation.

Jiryn

@mitu said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

@Jiryn said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

I am curious as to what happened.

Not sure what happened means here - on the Gihub side nothing happened and there's nothing that has been modified on the RetroPie repository (and I'm not sure there is something that can be modified to disallow access). What are you referring to .. ?

Also how do I turn off password login?

Follow the documentation page on Github, it's their configuration that needs to be followed. I think that if you have an account and wish to use it from CLI/app you need to add a SSH key to your account and use git instead of https for repositories where you want to have write access, but that is already explained in the Github documentation.

I mean, why am I getting the weird password error thing... I followed the instructions and was going to start over from the beginning.. just incase.

I meant password login for the PI, not Github.
Either way, I'll sit down and work through this again in a bit

Thank you for your help

mitu

@Jiryn said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

I meant password login for the PI, not Github.

That's normal for a manual RaspiOS installation. If you'd like to be automatically logged-in as the installation user, then you can choose so from RetroPie-Setup or from raspi-config.

Jiryn

@mitu
Started over from the first command.

Everything good now, no issues with the Manual Install instructions..

mitu

@Jiryn said in Manual Installation Broken at GitHub level:

Started over from the first command.

OK, so it worked now - what is different from the 1st attempt ?